Early Ball Grip Scalper

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LRB

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Just finished this one today. 8" 01 steel partial tang blade with acid etched Masonic emblem. Walnut grip wrapped and sewn with deer rawhide. Forged iron loop on butt with deer braintan tassels and brass cones. Deer rawhide wrapped sheath, deer hair brass cones, and a few trade beads. All lightly aged. This outfit was bit time consuming. Thanks for looking.
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Wow ! That knife is really sweet LRB :thumbup: I think you've got the frontier style sheath down pat too ;) Very, very nice package :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

I can see, with all of the details, how that could become quite "time consuming". I would say it's been worth every minute :) :D
 
LRB,
I took one look at that knife and knew who it had to belong to, there is only one fellow I know off that builds a knife like that. We know each other from another forum and in fact you have gave me advice in the past on some of my knives.
So I had to take a look at your home page to confirm who I thought it was! Really fine knife Wick. I've got about six cut out and in blank stage and one of them just happens to be similar to the knife you have just shown.

Would bone handles be appropriate on a knife of that era and that particular design?
 
Most definately would. Flattened cow horn scales would be also. This one is a partial tang, ending about where the rawhide ends, so to keep thing easy, I use wood on these. Here is a ball grip with bone, but this is a very tapered full tang. The sheath is by Dan Reese.
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LRB,
Hey thanks for the pic. Iam thinking of using a cow bone on the one I am going to build! I really appreciate you sharing that pic.

Any insights into the basic sheaths constrution? I really like that look. You call it a deer rawhide wrapped sheath, does that mean the rawhide is wrapped around leather to mantain the shape?
If you don't want to share those secrets I will understand.

One helluva knife!:thumbup::thumbup:

Dixiebade57
 
Dixieblade, there really ain't no secrets. Pretty much what Chuck said, except this one is a PIA to sew. You sew wet, and feed fringe into each cross stitch as you go. Every 15, to twenty minutes, you have to re-soak, or the rolled edge won't roll. Go to Daniel Winklers website and you'll see sheaths by Karen Shook that will knock your socks off. My sheath is in her style, but not in her class.
 
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