Josh Smith Dogbone Bowie

[jdm61]

Ken, I deviced a sneeky method to get it through Customs......I'm transporting it by car from Italy. Although we have Customs at our (air and harbour) ports we have open borders because of the European Community. I will travel through 4 countries without having to stop once for a border control

Marcel

Is Belgian Customs as bad as the Netherlands guys apparently are? I'm going to be doing a trade with a new friend of mine and don't want my knife to get lost in a black hole.

 

[Marcel54]

Joe, sometimes they can be (even worse). I suggest you ask this question on the Belgian forum (http://www.weapons.be). There are a few guys lurking there that know a lot about Belgian rules and regulations.

Marcel

 

[Orcrist]

Truly a work of art. Impressionism in steel...This immediately brought to mind the swirl of the Milky Way in Van Gogh's Starry Night.

 

[John M Cohea]

This is one of the nicest dogbone bowies I have ever seen. Something to enjoy for years to come for sure!!

 

[Joss]

Exquisite piece of work. Josh is an excellent maker, and I suspect he will be a very important maker to the craft along the years, not unlike Jerry Fisk is now.

 

[joshsmith]

Thank you everyone for the very kind compliments.

Marcel you mentioned the phone calls and time spent on the phone but to me that is the great joy of being a maker. I enjoy the people I get to meet and talk to as much as the work. Having the friends all over the globe now just because of knives is beyond amazing. Not only that but the time spent making a collector understand how their knife was made grows their appreciation for the knife.

I thought I would post a couple picks of the knife in progress. The drawing is of a dogbone bowie I presented to Marcel first. He then asked for the drawing as a dagger. I won't post that because it the same drawing essentially with a dagger blade. The other pic is of all the parts. The gold circle for the domes, the gold strip at the top for the gold liners, pin material, spacers, and the blade which was finished at this point already.

The black material laying there was the micarta I used to practice my faceting and hole placement before I acually started grinding and drilling nice wood. The peice on the bottom right with dykem on it is my steel handle pattern. The peice above it is my damascus frame.