A Boucheron and sheath = Wild Goo 15

Wild Rose

Wild Rose

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The thin (like the originals) 7 5/8" long blade is full-quenched out of 1095 is by Tai Goo. it was patterned after an original 18th Century French trade knife. I did the handle like many original replacement ghandles using a whitetail crown with a buffalo rawhide grip piece and hand-forged rose head iron pins - the sheath is rawhide and brain tan over bark tan decorated with beads and bangles ala the Plains Cree.....

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Beautiful Chuck, Absolutely beautiful. Did you use the bluing and bleach etch on it? I really like the look of the blade.
 
I made a correction this is WG 14 not 15 - I just got #15's blade (a 10.5" Bowie) from Tai today and had that on my mind....

Yep that's my "standard" cold/blue bleach etch with a couple of adaptations - if you looke close at the blade edge near the tip you can see a faint almost "hamon" look - I got that by coating the whole length of the edge with laquer for a resist (Tai's blades are scary sharp and I didn't want to mess that up) - I etched it and then after cleaning off the resist I hand "polished" the whole blade to smooth out/round off the etch a bit (like an old, well used blade gets) and then carefully etched the resisted area lightly (all but the very edge, then polished lightly again. To polish I used red ocher mixed with olive oil and applied with a piece of leather in the way the old timers did...
 
Wow, my leather supplier showed me some rawhide and I thought how would I every make a sheath out of that. Both are impressive, thanks for sharing
 
The knife is really nice Chuck and that is one of the finest sheaths I've ever seen!!!!
I wish you would do a tutorial on making that style of sheath, especially applying the beads!!!
 
I wish you would do a tutorial on making that style of sheath, especially applying the beads!!!
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L6steel - Here's one I did that will get you started - just replace the rawhide liner with a vegtan one then cover with rawhide or braintan as you wish...
Building a Frontier Sheath

For doing beadwork - see http://www.nativetech.org/glasbead/glasbead.html
Also see their bibliography - some folks find beadwork tedious for me it is a way of relaxing.....
I use the applique and the lane stitch dependent on tribal style and period. I use the early style "pony" beads in size 8/0 (mostly) or 10/0 - I get my beads mostly from Crazy Crow....

For rawhide I prefer deer or elk (www.hideandfur.com or www.eidnesfurs.com) - cow makes good liners but is much "stiffer" than deer or elk for using as a cover.
 
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