These designs would go on to influence other knife makers in the 1980s.
Some claim that Bowie designed it, while others attribute the design to noted knife makers of the time.
The arms show three knives as a symbol for the smithies and knife makers in the municipality.
The Depression was hard on many of the village's economic concerns, but the knife makers persisted.
"A. G. Russell is the finest knife maker in America."
In 1960 he sold the family farm to become a full-time knife maker.
"I couldn't find the knife maker who did Guru's," she said, excited for him.
They are agriculturalists and also knife makers.
Some knife makers will use a coolant mist on the grinder to achieve this.
The building, formerly a warehouse for Henckels, the knife maker, is divided into thirds.