Another Good Show

[Stacy E. Apelt - Bladesmith]

I had my Christmas private how today at the store. It was well attended, and I sold a good batch of knives and crafts. I haven't added it all up yet, but I think i sold about twenty knives and ten other items. The store did well,too, in the regular sales. All around a great day. These shows are a win-win for me and the store.

I also booked five pre-orders for some new Hunter/Skinner knives I am working on, and three for special order wind chimes. One will be a Noah's Ark wind chime.

 

[Stacy E. Apelt - Bladesmith]

A few more shots.

Anyone care to guess what the thing in the last two shots is?

 

[SBuzek]

Rhino horn?
Stan

 

[Stacy E. Apelt - Bladesmith]

Sort of...but older.

 

[shotgunner]

Is the horn a prehistoric bovine horn?

 

[MJV]

Maybe a prehistoric tusk?

 

[12345678910]

Can we see some new pics of the cigar cutter?

The ones in the old posts have disappeared.

 

[Mudbug007]

Those are some cool crafts. I've always been into tinkering with "weird" stuff (my Wife's words, not mine). Is there a forum where one can find more info and "how-to" on these metal crafts? I really like the fish and the spoon/fork art you've posted recently.

 

[Gody]

My guess is that its from a dinosaur. Cool knives. I specially like the copper fish.

Gody

 

[camoninja]

Sabertooth ?

 

[Patrice Lemée]

Looks good Stacy. I'd love a better pic of the hawk with the darker handle is you have one.

 

[Stacy E. Apelt - Bladesmith]

I have not yet taken it to an expert, but it appears to be a fossil from a horned Dinosaur. The best suspects are Chasmosaurus or one of the other centrosaurines....maybe styracosaurus.

Many people guess it is from a woolly rhino, but rhinoceros have no bone in the horn. It is just compressed hair. The horn is attached to the skull sort of like a cow horn is attached. When looking at the skull, there is little more than a bump where the horn goes.

I got it years ago from a mammoth ivory collector in Alberta, Canada. He found it sticking out of a partially exposed skull, and sawed it off. At the time ,he thought it was a small tusk tip. The sinus cavity show it is not a tusk, but a bony part of the skull. He sold it to me for $40.

 

[thegeek574]

Wow. Tell us how it works out for whatever you are going to use it for.

 

[Stacy E. Apelt - Bladesmith]

I just use it as a table display. Every once in a while, I think about cutting it up, but I just can't see doing that. When I get a chance to take it to an expert, I may donate it to a museum.

 

[A C Richards]

That is cool Stacy. Congrats on the show BTW. I assume that the bone is not actually fossilized but just preserved like mammoth? Wish he would have dug up the whole skull.