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Cherokee Rose arrives
- Thread starter Rusty
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tease.....
I'm dying to know how the little inlays turned out. Great addition to the handle.
I'm dying to know how the little inlays turned out. Great addition to the handle.
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Well, it's been five days now.
I'm still figuring out what it's trying to tell me.
There are a few dents or low places on either side of the blade. The rust has been polished off and only the slightest pitting remains at the very tip. The mirror finish has come off and I'm thinking of letting the blade discolor to a gray by applying naval jelly, giving it 5 minutes, then rinsing, maybe several times. Or maybe browning it.
The problem is that it has the aura of being larger than life - it needs more of something! There can be no doubt that it's been forged by hand. It has a spirit to it. It drips panache! Maybe it wants a crown stag handle affixed?
Maybe it is telling me it's not quite finished - that it needs to be made mine alone and no-one else's. The devil is in the details.
There are trails off to the east in Nevada where they tell me the marks of wagon wheels can still be seen. I close my eyes and I see the tip of it's blade sticking out of the sand alongside those tracks.
I'm still figuring out what it's trying to tell me.
There are a few dents or low places on either side of the blade. The rust has been polished off and only the slightest pitting remains at the very tip. The mirror finish has come off and I'm thinking of letting the blade discolor to a gray by applying naval jelly, giving it 5 minutes, then rinsing, maybe several times. Or maybe browning it.
The problem is that it has the aura of being larger than life - it needs more of something! There can be no doubt that it's been forged by hand. It has a spirit to it. It drips panache! Maybe it wants a crown stag handle affixed?
Maybe it is telling me it's not quite finished - that it needs to be made mine alone and no-one else's. The devil is in the details.
There are trails off to the east in Nevada where they tell me the marks of wagon wheels can still be seen. I close my eyes and I see the tip of it's blade sticking out of the sand alongside those tracks.
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Bro see if you can find some of the cold blue in the old plum color like guns used too come in years and years ago. I got a bottle of it in a black powder pepper box pistol kit I bought years ago. Haven't seen it locally though. There was enough that I blued an antique .22 that belonged too a friend with it.Rusty said:
Methinks a Rose with a plum colored blade would be a wonderfully period piece.
Come to think of it I may do that with mine when I ever get around to fixing it up again.
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Sometimes a plum color does turn up from using browning salts.
I did mean what I said about closing my eyes and seeing a rose partly uncovered next to a wagon trail. Or on the Pony Express trail between Fort Churchill on the Carson river and it's sink into the marshes outside Fallon. The Humboldt River sink is maybe 25 miles north of Fallon. From Utah down the Humboldt until it peters out, then follow the Carson River. Long way between watering holes on foot.
I did mean what I said about closing my eyes and seeing a rose partly uncovered next to a wagon trail. Or on the Pony Express trail between Fort Churchill on the Carson river and it's sink into the marshes outside Fallon. The Humboldt River sink is maybe 25 miles north of Fallon. From Utah down the Humboldt until it peters out, then follow the Carson River. Long way between watering holes on foot.
It reeks of sandbars. We get it. No law but that provided by its grasp.
When I think of one I try and imagine carrying it. I don't know that I could. I think I could tote the AK Bowie along, but that Rose is a different thing.
I don't know it fits munk. But this shouldn't be too hard for you; where's that pict of Yosemite Sam?
I get the feeling the Rose would do OK in New Orleans too.
munk
When I think of one I try and imagine carrying it. I don't know that I could. I think I could tote the AK Bowie along, but that Rose is a different thing.
I don't know it fits munk. But this shouldn't be too hard for you; where's that pict of Yosemite Sam?
I get the feeling the Rose would do OK in New Orleans too.
munk
