Lookie at what I won!!!!

Yvsa

Yvsa

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I just got it scanned into my computer this morning but I received it last Monday. Not really a *Big* knife but a right purty one.
It's a Bark River Sutter Creek, looks like one of the old California daggers. The handle is Thuya Burl and come to find out Thuya is what we ndns call Flat Cedar and we use the flat leaves as sort of an incense. A lot of time when I'm sending Smoke it will be Flat Cedar.
I sure didn't know the northern trees got that big or had that pretty of a grain!!!!

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It has a 5-7/8" blade and is 10-5/8" oal. The blade is almost 1-1/8" wide and single edged. Looks like one of the old California Daggers, Will and Finck IIRC. :D

It's special to me because of the Flat Cedar handle and because it's not a knife I would buy for myself. It's like someone brought me a really nice gift because they knew I like knives but didn't know my prefernce. :tu

And I absolutely love the sheath!!!! Well designed and well thought out!!!! I really do dislike straps and snaps and this one has a strap but no snap. it is a brass stud riveted onto a piece of leather that is then sewn on the top. It holds the knife very secure and yet is fast opening when needed.
All in all a very neat knife.
Many thanks to the BRK&T Outfit for having the contest!!!! It's the first knife I have ever won in anything. :D
Oh yeah, it came razor sharp right outta the box!!!! I did think I felt that one side was a bit more "catchy" than the other so I stropped it on the TV Guide we get outta the paper on Sundays. Now it is "Full Body Shiver Sharp!!!!" :D

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Looks sweet and congrats on the win! :thumbup:

Are the handle edges comfortable? They look a little sharp. :cool:

Bid and lost on an antique ivory Barkie earlier today on ePrey. :o


Mike
 
Yvsa, congrats for sure! I don't hit all the forums in a timely fashion, and checked into KF literally minutes after the contest closed! :grumpy: Sure wish I had gotten in on the deal, and if I had won that is one model I sure would have loved to get.

I have several barkies now and love them, and can thank, (more like _blame_!) Nasty for turning me onto them. What great knives. I'm going to make a note of that model and wood and hope to get either that model or a handle in that material down the road.

Thanks for rubbing it in, er, sharing I mean... :rolleyes::D

Norm
 
Ad Astra said:
Looks sweet and congrats on the win! :thumbup:

Are the handle edges comfortable? They look a little sharp. :cool:

Bid and lost on an antique ivory Barkie earlier today on ePrey. :o


Mike
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Mike, what model was it you were going for?
 
IS that sheath marked "...in Serbia" or not Edutsi? I'm trying to figure out which of Mike's partners made it.
 
Yvsa nice blade . I,d like to see what that flat cedar is like up close . Do the leaves burn nice . One incense I would like to try is juniper it is supposed to be cleansing . They used to burn it in the old playhouses when the audience got a little ripe .
 
Nasty said:
IS that sheath marked "...in Serbia" or not Edutsi? I'm trying to figure out which of Mike's partners made it.
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Thanks Guys!!!!:thumbup: :D

Mike the handle edges aren't as sharp as they appear and are very comfortable. I got the pic by scanning it instead of going through the rigamarole of breaking out the digicam. Didn't turn out all that bad.;)

Uwinv it just says, Bark River knife and tool from a stamp on the back, nothing about "in Serbia."
Does that give you any idea of who made it? I'd like to know too as well as what kind of steel the blade is. Maybe mike will see my post in his forum and enlighten me.:D

Kevin the Flat Cedar is indeed a Juniper. Google "Thuya" and you'll get all kinds of info including pix of the flat leaves.
Thuya is more commonly known as Arborvitae and there are several varities of the Flat Cedar.
We used to have a White Cedar growing in the front yard and a Black Cedar growing in the backyard. Both were highly aromatic and smelled so sweet when rubbed or burned!!!!:thumbup: :cool: :D
Unfortunately they both died the same year.:( I dried all the leaves I could and stored it in one of those large cans the three kinds of popcorn come in. We're still burning those leaves.:thumbup: :D
 
Holy crap, that handle's flat? I misinterpreted the coloration for actual scalloping. That's a great-looking piece of wood right there.

Awesome knife, Yvsa.

Interesting thing about the catch on that sheath; leather and rivets were the way military cartridge pouches and boxes were done for a long, long time. It was only changed to snaps (and later, hook-and-fastener) around WWII in the US and persisted even later in some countries. Funny how the more things change, the more they stay the same, huh?
 
DannyinJapan said:
so, you wanna sell me your musso bowie now?
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DIJ I'm sorry but I have already sold it. The very occasional poster here, jim bowie, asked me about it a long time back. I sold it to him for $250.00 so I could buy my Walther P-1/P-38 9mm Luger, a really good swap!!!!:thumbup: :cool: :D
I told Rich all the points I thought were bad about the Musso and he still wanted it so he got it.
The Imperial Iron Mistress is the better of the two knives IMO and I'm keeping it; unless the right person wants it at the right price.:D ;)
 
You won a nice knife.

Mike has been donating a raffle knife to the NJKCA every month, and that's the model he sent for May. I would really have liked to win it! The handle is exceptionally comfortable.
 
The sheath was made by Dan & Spen...I thought it had. They make *great* sheaths...and the Serbian ones from Bogdan's crew are superb. Mike had trouble for a long time finding sheathmakers who could produce both the quality *and* quantity he needed. He has always been too big for the little guys and too small for the big companies, so he has set up partnerships starting two companies, one here and one in Serbia. Each sheath is a collaboration and the designs go through full testing as the knife models are developed. What you get is essentially fully hand made but priced at a semi-production cost. World-class rigs for sure.
 
Geez Yvsa. Awesome win. I don't have any Bark River's yet, but I'm gonna have to fix that sometime soon.
 
Yvsa as you said thuya looks quite similar to the juniper here . It is common in upper scale landscaping . In fact several were just cut down and taken away before I could get to them . There is also a whole row just behind them . Looks like some judicious pruning is in order . It is interesting that the wood makes a good knife handle . I would have thought it too soft . I,ll let you know how the leaves smoke .
In the literature I read the call was to "Burn The Juniper Branches "
I guess that doesn,t mean the leaves couldn,t be dried on the branch .
 
Regarding soft...most Bark natural handles are stabilized...so the actual material provides the look, but I expect the stabilization process provides the strength. I know they are plenty strong.
 
Nasty said:
Regarding soft...most Bark natural handles are stabilized...so the actual material provides the look, but I expect the stabilization process provides the strength. I know they are plenty strong.
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By stabilized do you mean impregnated with something . Perhaps an epoxy pressurised into it ?

There are compressed cedar arrows that are supposedly quite strong . I think there are also some that have an epoxy pressurised into them . There is also a wood hardening/restoring solution that some people dip the front of their arrows in which supposedly makes them tougher . I have been told the hardener is actually a thinned epoxy used to restore damaged wood . I have some I got for another purpose . I may try an experiment or two .
 
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