Bob

This article is about the NPC in Lumbridge. For other NPCs, see Bob (disambiguation).

Bob
Released								4 January 2001 (Update)
Members								No
Race								Human
Location								Lumbridge
Sells items								Bob's Brilliant Axes.
Quest								• The Lost Tribe • Death to the Dorgeshuun
Gender								Male
Options								Talk-to, Trade, Repair
Examine								An expert on axes.
Map
Advanced data
NPC ID								10619, hist2812

Bob is the owner of Bob's Brilliant Axes in southern Lumbridge. Players can pay Bob to repair damaged Barrows equipment. However, many players prefer to repair their Barrows armour at an armour stand in a player-owned house because it is usually cheaper depending on the player's Smithing level.

Bob is also featured briefly in the Death to the Dorgeshuun quest, which shows him to dislike the Dorgeshuun. Believing Zanik to be a violent goblin, he screams at the player and Zanik to leave his store. He also expresses displeasure at having the Gnome Child in his store during the 20th Anniversary event, initially saying that he "does not serve their kind", before being flattered after the Gnome Child mistook him for Robert the Strong.

He is one of the people in Lumbridge that can be approached about the disturbance to the castle basement wall in The Lost Tribe.

Bob was one of the Lumbridge citizens to be attacked by a monkey during the 2021 Birthday event.

Stock

Sells at: 100.0% • Buys at: 60.0% • Change per: 2.0%

Item		Number in stock	Restock time	Price sold at	Price bought at	GE price
	Bronze pickaxe	5	1m	1	0	84
	Bronze axe	10	1m	16	9	84
	Iron axe	5	2m	56	33	99
	Steel axe	3	4m	200	120	76
	Iron battleaxe	5	1m	182	109	86
	Steel battleaxe	2	2m	650	390	229
	Mithril battleaxe	1	30m	1,690	1,014	1,074

Dialogue

This article on an NPC has an associated dialogue page. Click here for a transcript of possible conversations with this NPC. Click here for a list of other transcripts that this NPC speaks in.

Changes

Date	Changes
17 March 2021 (update)	Bob (2021 Birthday event) was replaced with the regular Bob. Bob's NPC ID changed to 10619.
17 February 2021 (update)	Bob was removed from the world and replaced with a nameless NPC in the game's cache. Bob (2021 Birthday event) took his place in the world for the 2021 Birthday event.
21 May 2015 (update | poll)	Bob gained a right-click option to repair Barrows equipment.
13 June 2013 (update | poll)	Bob and the other item repairers can now repair all your Barrows kit in a single transaction.

Gallery (historical)

29 March 2004 – June-November 2004	June-November 2004 – present

Trivia

• A comment was written by Mod John A, the main developer of Death to the Dorgeshuun, in the RuneScript code for Bob's dialogue during the quest, which states "Bob is a crazy racist!"
• Bob's statement that he doesn't "serve their kind", in reference to the gnome child, may be a reference to the film Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope, in which a similar statement is made towards C-3PO by the bartender of the Mos Eisley cantina.
• The painting inside Bob's Brilliant Axe's may be a reference to Bob Ross's "Distant Mountains" painting, as the framing and subject are nearly identical.
• As a child, Bob was sent to the Varrock Museum by his father, hoping he'd follow the path of academia. The museum instead assigned him to preserve and repair Third Age Armour, a skill he picked up rather quickly. In the May 2022 edition of the Postbag from the Hedge, he credits this experience as the reason he is able to repair ancient and exotic armours such as those dropped by the Barrows Brothers.