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The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is ready to order! See this thread for details: https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/bladeforums-2024-traditional-knife.2003187/
Price is$300$250 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
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2 Mini Mojo's with DINOSAUR BONE INSERTS
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Very nice looking overlays redrummd!! But now everybody is gonna want me to add dinosaur bone to my Mini Mojo giveaway knife!!!:grumpy: Not good, dude. Not good.
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They are inserts not overlays as I take the G-10 and remove it first...... So, it is really tough to get a very tight fit when hand cutting stone to fit the little hole! I also now know that the holes are not exactly the same size on each knife now so I hand fit each piece to the actual knife it will go into.......
By private message - share a bit more about the Kershaw give away you are doing as I may be willing to spend a few hours cutting and fitting one for a good cause.....
They are inserts not overlays as I take the G-10 and remove it first...... So, it is really tough to get a very tight fit when hand cutting stone to fit the little hole! I also now know that the holes are not exactly the same size on each knife now so I hand fit each piece to the actual knife it will go into.......
By private message - share a bit more about the Kershaw give away you are doing as I may be willing to spend a few hours cutting and fitting one for a good cause.....
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It is really fossil dinosaur bone and 250 MILLION years in the making. The bone was buried in mud in ancient streams, lakes and volcanic events. Over the eons the calcium has been replaced by other minerals, mostly calacite and agate. The colors are caused by minerals nearthe bone with the reds being caused by iron as an example.
The red bone piece is agate and the brown one initially had some replacement in calacite that was then agatized with some cells being fully agatized. Agate is harder and takes a better polish than the calacite so it is the better material. In the case of the brown one it isthe best of both minerals as the calacite added colors and some refraction not normally seen in agate only replacement.......
The red bone piece is agate and the brown one initially had some replacement in calacite that was then agatized with some cells being fully agatized. Agate is harder and takes a better polish than the calacite so it is the better material. In the case of the brown one it isthe best of both minerals as the calacite added colors and some refraction not normally seen in agate only replacement.......
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