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First off what the HE!! - where's the sheath
- no worries it's in the works!
Secondly I hadn't really planned on posting these pics - they were to show my knife building partner Gib (CactusForge + Wild Rose = Cactus Rose) how this collaboration piece looked at this stage.
Yesterday I had just finished up the holster in the background for a customer and while taking pictures of it thought it might make a good backup for the Bowie. One of the images (a version of the first pic) just grabbed me and I decided I'd like to enter in the CKDF photo contest. So off to Gib it went. He agreed and then this morning we decided we'd give everybody a view.
The history: Gib sent me the blade (forged 5160 with his rustic finish) a while back along with the stag crown (and several other blades - oh where oh where is the time to do it all).
I'd been too busy filling leather orders to work on it - but a couple of weeks ago I was getting burnt out on leather work and got the jones to get this sucker hafted. So I went into the shop and went to work. I shaped and file worked the guard, and then in Plains Indian style wrapped the grip with rawhide (I'd been looking at an original Bowie carried by Sitting Bull that had such a wrap), added some brass tacks, and then for the final touch I put a custom nickel concho on the butt. After I got the grip done I decided the blade needed some period filework too so I wound up adding a bit on the spine and the choil. Of course then it needed an aged etch so...
Anyway here's what it wound up looking like. Hope you have as much fun looking at it as I had working on it.
- no worries it's in the works!Secondly I hadn't really planned on posting these pics - they were to show my knife building partner Gib (CactusForge + Wild Rose = Cactus Rose) how this collaboration piece looked at this stage.
Yesterday I had just finished up the holster in the background for a customer and while taking pictures of it thought it might make a good backup for the Bowie. One of the images (a version of the first pic) just grabbed me and I decided I'd like to enter in the CKDF photo contest. So off to Gib it went. He agreed and then this morning we decided we'd give everybody a view.
The history: Gib sent me the blade (forged 5160 with his rustic finish) a while back along with the stag crown (and several other blades - oh where oh where is the time to do it all
). I'd been too busy filling leather orders to work on it - but a couple of weeks ago I was getting burnt out on leather work and got the jones to get this sucker hafted. So I went into the shop and went to work. I shaped and file worked the guard, and then in Plains Indian style wrapped the grip with rawhide (I'd been looking at an original Bowie carried by Sitting Bull that had such a wrap), added some brass tacks, and then for the final touch I put a custom nickel concho on the butt. After I got the grip done I decided the blade needed some period filework too so I wound up adding a bit on the spine and the choil. Of course then it needed an aged etch so...
Anyway here's what it wound up looking like. Hope you have as much fun looking at it as I had working on it.
W Chuck, I really like the work you've done on this knife; a great effort. Kudos, also to Gib to on a great blade. Thanks for posting all these fabulous photos, always love to see them.
