Ok, Now thats Cool.....

looks like beautiful scrimshaw work ... I don't see nearly as much of it as I used to. Thanks for sharing the pictures.
 
Horsewright said:
Navajo Sand Painting is the other art form attributed to just North America.
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Well - maybe the NAVAJO part of that phrase is accurate but as I understand it, sand painting has been practiced in Australia, Tibet, Japan - likely others, for millennia, certainly concurrent with what was happening on this continent and very possibly, long before. Dubious or at least debatable, that sand painting is an art form original to North America. I could be wrong.

Ray
 
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Hmm good point, I do know of the Australian ones now that you mention it. See nothing new under the sun. Thats interesting even text books in the old days could be wrong. I stand corrected.
 
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What I said when I pulled the knife from it's sheath. This is one of my California Coyotes. I'd made this knife a while back and the customer had sent it back for an additional sheath. Instead of just carrying it cross draw he wanted the option of carrying it right hand draw, small of the back. So he was asking me to build him an additional sheath for this method of carry. Here's what I saw when I pulled er from the sheath:

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I'd heard the name but had not seen any of her work before. I think this is really cool. Whadya think?

Trivia question, (no googling), scrimshaw is one of only two art forms native to North America. What's the other?
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Gorgeous knife!

The other American art form is jazz. What do I win!? ;-)

-- Mark
 
mnblade said:
The other American art form is jazz. What do I win!? ;-)
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Mark,
Oops !
You beat me to it. I didn't realize there was a page two.
What can I say . . . I did once win a Chet Baker album in a raffle at a theater.
Chet was from Oklahoma. Respected as a music GOD in Europe.
 
sorry . . . yes I had to do this it is important

About four minutes up to six minutes into the vid

and if you don’t have the patience to watch that PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE watch a couple of minutes after 16 minutes in until 19 minutes. Ken Burns says it. I had no idea until I saw this vid back then . . . but I do NOW.
I am extra proud to be an American because of this . . . and I hated my middle name until I discovered Wynton (my middle name) that's all changed now.
 
yep, that is real cool. Really love scrim - and that's a lovely example and pertinent subject matter :thumbsup:

Have had some done on a faux ivory handled Loveless Dagger, but I am none too sure if that would be acceptable (ie daggers themselves..?) to show on this forum o_O
 
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A couple years ago I sat next to this guy in my stats class who had a lock back about the size of a 112. Nickle silver bolsters, drop point blade, and markings I didn't recognize. It had file work along the lock bar and spine of the blade and very detailed scrimshaw on one scale (white, bone-looking but unknown) of a sailing ship quartering towards you and something else on the other side that I can't remember. He said that his girlfriend found it in an antique shop.

Unfortunately this was when I was only just getting into traditional knives and knives in general beyond being a tool I carry in my pocket. If I saw it again today with my porch-honed "knife sense" I would probably have remembered the details a little better.
 
Very cool guys and interesting! Thanks Don, my mother use to say "it takes a big man to admit that he is wrong", same deal I guess.
 
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