Tod Cutler Bowie fixed blade knifeTod Cutler Bowie This hand made, reproduction, 19thC Bowie knife is based on those exported in vast numbers from Sheffield to the US and was the must have knife associated with Jim Bowie. The origins of the knife and who designed it are not clear, but it seems that Jim Bowie used a knife similar to this in a famous fight in 1827 that was written up in news papers and so the legend was born and the "Bowie" knife became a required item for frontiers