Case XX Peanut with Dinosaur Gem Bone scales and Damascus blades

Redrummd

Redrummd

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I have been using a lot of Case XX knives that have the raindrop pattern Damascus by Devin Thomas for rescaling with Dinosaur Gem Bone. The gem bone is fossilized dinosaur bone from dinosaurs living in the Jurassic Period 140 to 220 million years ago. I did this knife as part of a Barter trade with a dinosaur bone dealer.

It looks so unusual that I though I would share a couple of pictures here. I must say that the Case XX knives with the Devin Thomas Damascus are simply beautiful when given a bit better etch too! These little knives look so good I refer to them as "jewelry for your pocket." The lady I made the knive for is making matching money clips with the scraps of the slabs for a big show she is doing in September.

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Gorgeous knife; what species of dino? That whole knife 'coordinates' really well. :thumbup:

thx - cpr
 
I don't know enough about the dinosaurs from that time to even give s good guess. I do know from the size of the bone, and the size of the cells in the bone, that it was a large dinosaur.
 
:thumbup:That is gorgeous work!

Is that a peanut or a trapper?
 
Awesome stuff Red, one of these days I'll pony up and buy one of those pocket jewellry things from you. I've been wanting one for near a year now.
 
DOH! - In the subject line I indicate it is a Peanut but it is the Mini Trapper. I did about 10 of the Devin Thomas Damascus knives and got this Mini Trapper mixed up with the Peanuts I did... Old Timers hits again I think.
 
When I hit the lottery, I'll be getting a lot off mammoth and dinosaur knives. That is very, very old fashioned, and I think they're beautiful.
 
Redrummd said:
I don't know enough about the dinosaurs from that time to even give s good guess. I do know from the size of the bone, and the size of the cells in the bone, that it was a large dinosaur.
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Very rarely is there any trace of the organic material left after fossilization. I have heard of a tyrannosaurus leg bone that contained a small amount of organic material in the very interior, that was found when the fossil was cut to move. However, this is very rare. Cell size has almost nothing to do with the size of the animal, and you would not be able to tell the cell size of a dinosaur by looking at a fossil (remember there is no organics left). Eukaryotic cells (not bacteria or archea) are all pretty much the same size(whether rat cells or whale cells), and are too small to see with the naked eye anyway. What you see in the fossil is merely the grains of sediment that deposited in the cavity formed by the bone as it deteriorated to nothing. Cell size is constrained by the volume/surface area ratio. Very large cells have a problem getting nutrients into the interior of the cell, and waste out of the cell. This is a very important reason why there aren't any macroscopic single cellular organisms.

Beautiful knife at any rate.
 
There are very distict size differences in the cell size in dinosaur bone, but we are referring to the marrow hollow cell size in the bone structure not specifically the biological cell size.... I would say that as a comparison you could look at the marrow cells in a Giraffe as compared to those in a chicken bone. There is a very visible difference with this dino being much larger in the fossil bone cross section that the bone and marrow cells in a girraffe femur.
 
Point taken. The confusion was mine. I'd like to see some more of those knives.
 
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