Ka-bar Knives Bowie Knife with Stacked Leather Handle and Leather Sheath Model: KB1236 See more items by Ka-bar Knives or view other Bowie Knives. Your Price: $49.99 Suggested: $85.83 Savings: $35.84 (42%) Shipping: Click to Calculate Availability: Usually leaves the warehouse in 1-2 business days. Customer Rating: Catalog Number: 82356 (You can remove or adjust quantities later.)

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Making a quality KA-BAR product requires the talent of experienced craftspeople performing dozens of processes with precision and skill. Each knife undergoes specific manufacturing processes to ensure corrosion resistance, strength, edge holding ability, and an out-of-the-box razor sharp cutting edge.

Soon after its introduction in the mid-1920's, the KA-BAR trademark became widely known and respected. There have been many versions of how the KA-BAR name came to be, but all evidence points to a letter received from a fur trapper. This particular fur trapper's testimonial turned out to be the most significant ever received by the company.

He wrote, in very rough English, that his gun had jammed and that he had therefore relied on his knife to kill a wounded bear that was attacking him. In thanking the company for their quality product the trapper described using his knife to kill the bear. All that was legible of his scrawled writing was "k a bar". The company was so honored by this testimonial that they adopted this phrase and used it as their trademark, KA-BAR.
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  Robert S. from Catonsville, MD

Having purchased KA-BAR WWII type military knives in the past which I consider American Icons, I was disappointed that this civilian model was not made in the USA. If the quality of the knife itself and it's mirror finished blade had not been so superb, I would have sent it back for being foreign made. However the knife itself was so beautiful, I could not bear to part with it. The sheath was a different story. It suffered from an all too prevalent industry problem of being so over saturated with oil that it bled into the cardboard box and was unwearable. I made my own sheath while soaking the ka-bar sheath in mineral spirits, which totally removed all the oil. I have been hand rubbing oil into the sheath to restore it. I do not recommend this procedure. Maybe my sheath was just a fluke. The sheaths of the WWII type military knives I have recently purchased have been fine. I wrote to KA-BAR, New York and they sent me a new dry box to replace my oil soaked one for collect ability purposes.