A Hunter & Sheath - CactusRose 31

Wild Rose

Wild Rose

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This one is going to a professor of art in Spain to be used as his hunting knife - Gib would be pleased!

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As always it's even better in person - the subtle variations/nuances of the colors are much richer in person and of course there is the tactile senses, of touch and smell, which no camera can ever capture.........
Here are the specifications:
Blade length: 5 9/16" - blade has a bit of filework on it
Blade steel: 5160
Overall length: 10"
Handle: mule deer leg bone with a buffalo rawhide and hemp thread wrap
Guard: Brass
Sheath: Bark tan cowhide liner with a carved deer rawhide cover
Decoration: Beaded brain tan buckskin cuff and beaded lower edge with brass tacks and nails. Glass beads, tin cone, and buffalo hair danglers. The belt loop is bark tan cowhide with a carved deer rawhide "fix'it" patch
 
Chuck that's just fantastic! And so nice to see some of Gib's work again. Thanks for the uplifting moment in my morning!
 
A very nice package indeed.
when I look at your knives and sheaths I find myself wondering just what your stock drawers look like, bones ,hair, beads,feathers,leather,rawhide.
Will you let us look at your work place some time .

Richard
 
I really love your work. I have gone through your website numerous times and am always amazed. What do you do to your bone handles? Do you stabilize them yourself, or have it done professionally. If you do it yourself, what do you use. I have a box of bones from last year's deer and my buddies bear that I'd like to start using as handles.
 
Nice work as usual Chuck, thanks for showing us. I'm willing to bet that professor is an interesting charactor to talk to. Who do you know takes a knife like this out to the woods? He probally has the entire outfit to go along with it.

I have often thought about a simpler life and make my own leather clothes, knives, guns and bow/arrows and go off to live in the mountains and live off the land. If I starve at least I will die with a happy starved look on my face.
 
Bruce Bump said:
I have often thought about a simpler life and make my own leather clothes, knives, guns and bow/arrows and go off to live in the mountains and live off the land. If I starve at least I will die with a happy starved look on my face.
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Bruce, I here February is a good month to start.
 
Yep I agrre Gib would like that a lot. :thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:
 
Awesome!
how do you do those danglers? i attempted some recently, they came out ok but those are sweet!
 
Glad ya'll enjoyed the look see, it was a nice change from those big knives and sheaths, still the same work but in a smaller package....

Ray - that piece came from you, but way back when..

What do you do to your bone handles? Do you stabilize them yourself, or have it done professionally.
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bj - no stabilizing - a real no no for this market and it just plain doesn't need it. After dying - I use Fiebings Leather dye, the regular stuff, I treat them with real boiled linseed oil from Tried and True Oil. You can soak them in it and then let dry in the sun for a week just add a few coats.
Since the bone is hollow I fill as much of the area up with a hardwood dowel and the rest with epoxy or cutler's resin (a mix of pine rosin, beeswax, and sawdust).


how do you do those danglers?
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Josh - do you mean making the tin cones or how did I string them up?


Nice work as usual Chuck, thanks for showing us. I'm willing to bet that professor is an interesting charactor to talk to. Who do you know takes a knife like this out to the woods? He probally has the entire outfit to go along with it.
I have often thought about a simpler life and make my own leather clothes, knives, guns and bow/arrows and go off to live in the mountains and live off the land. If I starve at least I will die with a happy starved look on my face.
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Bruce - We've only emailed back and forth a bit - not sure about him having the whole outfit or not but he loves the Old West.
As for living the simpler life - been there, done that -not as a simple as it sounds. Long story short - back in the mid 70's I spent almost a year living up on the east edge of the Pasayten Wilderness (north Cascades) in a tipi - just me my horse, mule, and dog trapping and hunting and just living day to day - it was nice while it lasted, but it still wasn't far enough a way from city folk..........
 
"I spent almost a year living up on the east edge of the Pasayten Wilderness (north Cascades) in a tipi - just me my horse, mule, and dog trapping and hunting and just living day to day - it was nice while it lasted, but it still wasn't far enough a way from city folk.......... "

Beautiful work as usual Chuck. Are you going to make more DVDs? I liked the first two.

As far as living in the wilderness...you know you've been out long enough that two things happened to me when I returned to civilization.
1 I felt off balance (almost like vertigo)from the noise and the oddness of stepping on flat surfaces such as concrete.
2. I had a strong urge to void on a tree and started walking toward the tree until it hit me that I was back in town and could get arrestred.
 
deloid said:
As far as living in the wilderness...you know you've been out long enough that two things happened to me when I returned to civilization.
1 I felt off balance (almost like vertigo)from the noise and the oddness of stepping on flat surfaces such as concrete.
2. I had a strong urge to void on a tree and started walking toward the tree until it hit me that I was back in town and could get arrestred.
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Wow. I didn't spend as much time in the mountains as you guys, but I had those exact reactions when I came out. And yes, I've "used" every tree in our back yard. ;) For whatever it's worth, I still feel nostalgic for that time, regardless the hunger, diarrhea, cold, loneliness and, I admit, occasional fear. I learned a respect for the planet I would not otherwise have had, and a deep appreciation for the way our distant ancestors lived. But no, I don't think I'd volunteer to live out there again - looking at Chuck's recreations is close enough for me! :D
 
Josh - do you mean making the tin cones or how did I string them up? [/quote said:
I guess mainly how you string them up, but i am interested in the whole assembly!
thanks!
jt
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