Warborn Blades
Take it up to the light
House code LW-0615
Walnut Damascus Bowie with Brass Inlay
In hand · Ships from the US · Carriage $16
Is this lawful where you stand? Read the law for this piece →
Rivers of folded iron flow across this great length, cradled in the warm embrace of old walnut. The brass gleams like a memory of summer courts long turned to dust. It is a sovereign blade, heavy with the lineage of ancient smiths who poured their souls into the fire.
About this piece
Walnut Damascus Bowie with Brass Inlay is a bowie knife carried by Warborn Blades, a licensed United States dealer of bowie knives. It measures 15in overall as stated by the forge, and it ships from the house's own walls rather than a drop-shipper's warehouse.
The blade is Damascus Blade. Carbon and tool steels take a finer edge and take it faster, and they will rust if left wet. Wipe the blade dry and keep a film of oil on it and it will outlast you.
Fittings and furniture: Wood (Walnut). The fittings are where a piece is honest or is not — a guard, a pommel and a grip that are fitted tight will not shift under work.
Ownership and carry are two different questions. Most provinces permit possession of what they forbid on the street, and blade-length ceilings apply to carry rather than to what may be shipped to your door.
Knife laws by state — free, all fifty and the District.
“The clipped point is a promise. It does not need explaining.”— the Lady, quietly
- Overall
- 15 inches
- Form
- bowie
- Steel
- Damascus Blade
- Fittings
- Wood (Walnut)
$139.99
The Muster — swear $160.01 more and the house bears the carriage. Otherwise it is $16.00 flat, however much steel rides. Walk the halls
Proof of age is required before any steel leaves these walls — always, for every soul, without exception. Read why this gate stands.
Muster a war-ready kit around this pieceTrade old steel toward itNothing is charged. The oath is held until you set your seal to it.
The house will hold it in mind for two days. Come back inside that window and a tenth of the reckoning is forgiven.
The Trial of the Blade
Swing it before you own it. This exact piece — its reach, its weight, its steel — is put in a fitting hand and set against a living foe for three exchanges. What you feel is what you would carry.
The Tale of the Blade
What it is built for
This piece is built for the field — a clipped point, a deep belly, and a spine that takes abuse.
The lineage of its steel — Damascus Blade
Pattern-welded steel. Layers of differing steel forge-welded and folded, then etched so the weld lines show. The pattern is real structure, not print — and it wants oil, because the etch leaves the surface hungry.
Read the chapter on this steel →This blade belongs in the hand of
The ranger or camp master
One who skins, batons, clears and cuts far from a kitchen drawer, and wants one blade that will do all of it.
Keeping it alive
Dry it, oil it, store it out of the sheath for the long keep, and sharpen it before it is blunt rather than after. The house gives the whole method away for nothing.
The Upkeep Writ — free →The road it walked to this wall
1. Forged at the maker's fire
The piece is made by the forge that makes it — we do not pretend to have hammered it.
2. Received and looked over by the house
It comes into our walls and is checked before it is ever offered.
3. Sealed with the Seal of Provenance
The house records what it knows about the piece — and refuses to claim what it cannot prove.
4. Sent out from the house's own walls
It ships from us, with the record travelling beside it.
These four stations are the house’s standing doctrine for every piece it carries, not a tracking record of this one blade. Where the house cannot prove a claim, it strikes the claim rather than dressing it up.
The voice of the steel
Every piece in this house has one true note, and it is not a recording. Walnut Damascus Bowie with Brass Inlay is 15″ of damascus blade, and a bar of that length and that temper rings at about 286 hertz — bright and steady, warm. Strike it and hear the piece itself.
Written before it was ever sold
The Blood Ledger
01The Pattern
The bowie is the American compromise: too large to be a knife, too short to be a sword, and therefore honest about being neither. It was carried by men who expected the day to require both a camp and a quarrel.
02The Making
Hardened steel — Damascus Blade. This is the modern end of the trade: alloys that hold an edge far past the point where old steel gives up, at the cost of being stubborn on the stone. Sharpen it rarely, sharpen it properly.
03The Carry
At 15 inches this is a belt piece with presence. It will be seen. Most of what a blade this size does in the world is deterrence, and deterrence only works when it is visible.
04The Reckoning
Steel keeps no loyalty. It does what the arm does. The ledger ends where your part of it begins.
Warborn Blades · the chronicle of Walnut Damascus Bowie with Brass Inlay
What it leaves open
Swung honestly, it keeps you close. No piece covers every yard of ground — that is why no one ever carried only one. Beside it the house would hang something that reaches past the guard before he closes.
The Armorer’s Bench
What it leaves wantingNo one ever carried one blade. The armorer sets down what this piece cannot answer for, and names the steel that can.
The line
Medieval Cloak - GreenSame fittings, other work. It answers for reach held out in front of thee, to meet a man before he arrives.
$74.99the pair — $214.98
The dark
Medieval Hooded Cloak - Green X LargeSame fittings, other work. It answers for something small and quiet, carried where no one looks for it.
$83.99the pair — $223.98
Kindred Steel
All of The Great Bowies →Steel keeps company with its own. These hang near it on the wall.
The house has written on this
- How to Choose a Bowie Knife That Is Not a Wall OrnamentBlade length, point geometry, and the four things that separate a fighting bowie from a souvenir.
- Damascus Steel Explained: Real vs Fake, and Is It Good?The pattern is real. The legend is mostly not.
- How to Clean a Sword: Step by Step in 10 MinutesTen minutes of care is the difference between an heirloom and a rusted disappointment.
Learn this steel — free, from the house
Forge Wisdom is the house's whole craft, given away. No coin, no seat, no gate.
- The Oakeshott typologyHow swords are actually classified, type by type.
- Tangs and fittingsThe hidden steel that decides whether a hilt holds.
- What sharpness actually isAngle, apex and burr — why an edge cuts and why it stops.
- Stones, files and machinesWhat to sharpen this edge on, and what will ruin it.
Walnut Damascus Bowie with Brass Inlay
$139.99