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Hello everyone, its time to introduce the CKCA Cancer Research Benefit Bowie for 2012. Im very
proud to announce this years contribution from your generosity will go towards research in the
fight against Pancreatic Cancer.
Im also very proud to be working with two of my favorite and most well-known and skilled knifemakers
in the world today, Tim Hancock and Larry Fuegen. About two years ago while considering CKCA member
knifemakers to contribute to our cancer benefit projects Tim and Larry came to mind as the perfect team
to collaborate on a very special Bowie and sheath. Of course they were more than happy to contribute to
such a worthy project. As a result we have a Bowie that fully represents each makers talents and skill.
Tim did the design and blade and Larry did the handle, fittings and sheath.
I always enjoy a little history behind a custom knife as it adds all the more interest.
Our 2012 CKCA Cancer Benefit Bowie and Sheath has just that. Anyone who follows Tim Hancock knows
of his Sister Bowie series of knives of which our 2012 Bowie is #5 of the series and called
The Angel Basin Bowie.
These Bowies have been inspired by Tim and Larry Fuegens trips into the rugged, beautiful and
dangerous Superstition Mountains of Arizona. I suggest that anyone who has not been exposed to these
beauties to read up on them in Blade Magazine and the David Darom Book Tim Hancock, the Western Bladesmith.
The beautifully carved wood handle is Mesquite that Larry brought from the mountains and the damascus blade is
forged with relic iron in it from the Superstitions. Unfortunately, for Larry and Tim, they havent found the
legendary lost gold, so the 14K gold was purchased.
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/627488-Tim-Hancock-The-Western-Bladesmith
Tim Hancock writes:
"The Bowie that we are making is a part of what I call my Sister Bowies all of them have some form
or old relic Iron that I picked up on one of my excursions.
There has been the Flagstaff Bowie, Tombstone Bowie, Superstition Bowie the Reavis Ranch Bowie and
now The Angel Basin Bowie.
Angle Basin is one of the most beautiful locations in the Superstition Mountains. A few years ago Larry I
mounted up and packed back in to Angel Basin and had a fantastic time. We were attempting to clear an
old trail that headed up a canyon north of the Basin. It was more than we could accomplish and quite a
dangerous trip in many ways. At one time while cutting trees from a portion of the trail on a very steep
section of the canyon wall one of my mules decided to head back down the trail and made a u turn on
what was about like a goat trail so narrow that we opted to not tie her up due to the difficulty of getting
past the animals ahead of her. At any rate she set off a chain reaction.
Larry's Paint Horse spun around on a large bolder an came crashing down on his belly just as Larry slipped
past him to catch retreating mule. About the same time I snapped a dry limb and a portion of it shot out
and impaled me under my chin like an arrow from a bow. Thankfully none of the stock fell of our precarious
perch and I only bled for a while.
We called it a day and headed to a different area to explore some Sinagua Indian dwellings, to complete
the excitement Larry caught his gloved thumb cutting him quite deep on branch he was pushing out
of his way as we rode up an over grown rocky crag of a trail heading home.
It was a grand trip! And now from it comes The Angel Basin Bowie!!!"
Chuck Ward has provide our Benefit Bowie photography, promotional materials and raffle supplies for
three years and we can't thank him enough.
This Year Buddy Thomason has graciously taken on the tasks and our Bowie and Sheath are on the
way to him. We will of course be supplying more information and photos over the next 9-10 months
of this project.
A huge thanks to all of you who have supported CKCA Cancer Research Benefit projects over the last
3 years as we are helping to make a difference in the fight against cancer.
proud to announce this years contribution from your generosity will go towards research in the
fight against Pancreatic Cancer.
Im also very proud to be working with two of my favorite and most well-known and skilled knifemakers
in the world today, Tim Hancock and Larry Fuegen. About two years ago while considering CKCA member
knifemakers to contribute to our cancer benefit projects Tim and Larry came to mind as the perfect team
to collaborate on a very special Bowie and sheath. Of course they were more than happy to contribute to
such a worthy project. As a result we have a Bowie that fully represents each makers talents and skill.
Tim did the design and blade and Larry did the handle, fittings and sheath.
I always enjoy a little history behind a custom knife as it adds all the more interest.
Our 2012 CKCA Cancer Benefit Bowie and Sheath has just that. Anyone who follows Tim Hancock knows
of his Sister Bowie series of knives of which our 2012 Bowie is #5 of the series and called
The Angel Basin Bowie.
These Bowies have been inspired by Tim and Larry Fuegens trips into the rugged, beautiful and
dangerous Superstition Mountains of Arizona. I suggest that anyone who has not been exposed to these
beauties to read up on them in Blade Magazine and the David Darom Book Tim Hancock, the Western Bladesmith.
The beautifully carved wood handle is Mesquite that Larry brought from the mountains and the damascus blade is
forged with relic iron in it from the Superstitions. Unfortunately, for Larry and Tim, they havent found the
legendary lost gold, so the 14K gold was purchased.
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/627488-Tim-Hancock-The-Western-Bladesmith
Tim Hancock writes:
"The Bowie that we are making is a part of what I call my Sister Bowies all of them have some form
or old relic Iron that I picked up on one of my excursions.
There has been the Flagstaff Bowie, Tombstone Bowie, Superstition Bowie the Reavis Ranch Bowie and
now The Angel Basin Bowie.
Angle Basin is one of the most beautiful locations in the Superstition Mountains. A few years ago Larry I
mounted up and packed back in to Angel Basin and had a fantastic time. We were attempting to clear an
old trail that headed up a canyon north of the Basin. It was more than we could accomplish and quite a
dangerous trip in many ways. At one time while cutting trees from a portion of the trail on a very steep
section of the canyon wall one of my mules decided to head back down the trail and made a u turn on
what was about like a goat trail so narrow that we opted to not tie her up due to the difficulty of getting
past the animals ahead of her. At any rate she set off a chain reaction.
Larry's Paint Horse spun around on a large bolder an came crashing down on his belly just as Larry slipped
past him to catch retreating mule. About the same time I snapped a dry limb and a portion of it shot out
and impaled me under my chin like an arrow from a bow. Thankfully none of the stock fell of our precarious
perch and I only bled for a while.
We called it a day and headed to a different area to explore some Sinagua Indian dwellings, to complete
the excitement Larry caught his gloved thumb cutting him quite deep on branch he was pushing out
of his way as we rode up an over grown rocky crag of a trail heading home.
It was a grand trip! And now from it comes The Angel Basin Bowie!!!"
Chuck Ward has provide our Benefit Bowie photography, promotional materials and raffle supplies for
three years and we can't thank him enough.
This Year Buddy Thomason has graciously taken on the tasks and our Bowie and Sheath are on the
way to him. We will of course be supplying more information and photos over the next 9-10 months
of this project.
A huge thanks to all of you who have supported CKCA Cancer Research Benefit projects over the last
3 years as we are helping to make a difference in the fight against cancer.
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