Bawanna
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Was just gonna add this to one of the other threads but figured it deserves a thread of it's own and didn't want it to get lost.
I try not to muddy up the site with a bunch of threads but it sure don't appear so huh?
Anyhow here's what I got so far on blues 2nd generation Bhakta. This one was one of the nicest 2nd generation bowies I've laid eye's on. Seriously NICE! My first thought was to try and talk him out of it but that subsided and I got over it.
Haven't sent it yet so still some risk involved but I'll put forth effort to give it back.
The pattern in the middle according to blue is some sort of Buddhist symbol popular in Mongolia. The challenge was shrinking the picture of it down to something that would fit on the handle. I kept trying to make bands rather than just lines like the picture. Once I figured that part out it wasn't difficult and I of course did it a couple times on a scrap piece before I screwed up the knife.



No oil on the handles yet, need to make a couple more passes. I took a wood burner to the symbol to kind of make it stand out a bit, hoping it looks fine and dandy when I get oil on everything.
Hopefully get some time with it this afternoon although it don't look like rain, so I might be on the wood pile.
Guruguru, did you ever get # 2, I plumb forgot about that one.
I try not to muddy up the site with a bunch of threads but it sure don't appear so huh?
Anyhow here's what I got so far on blues 2nd generation Bhakta. This one was one of the nicest 2nd generation bowies I've laid eye's on. Seriously NICE! My first thought was to try and talk him out of it but that subsided and I got over it.
Haven't sent it yet so still some risk involved but I'll put forth effort to give it back.
The pattern in the middle according to blue is some sort of Buddhist symbol popular in Mongolia. The challenge was shrinking the picture of it down to something that would fit on the handle. I kept trying to make bands rather than just lines like the picture. Once I figured that part out it wasn't difficult and I of course did it a couple times on a scrap piece before I screwed up the knife.



No oil on the handles yet, need to make a couple more passes. I took a wood burner to the symbol to kind of make it stand out a bit, hoping it looks fine and dandy when I get oil on everything.
Hopefully get some time with it this afternoon although it don't look like rain, so I might be on the wood pile.
Guruguru, did you ever get # 2, I plumb forgot about that one.