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OT: More goings on at the gun show

Sylvrfalcn

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Ran into my friend, the proprietor of "Cowboy Bootique" (I think his wife came up with that name)at the gun show this past weekend. He was all dressed in fringed buckskins, but I noticed he wasn't wearing the antler handled neck knife I gave him and asked him about it. He said he had to keep it in his travel trailer at shows to keep people from pestering him to death trying to buy it from him.

He told me people have offered him well over 100 bucks for that little neck knife, but he won't part with it, period, end of discussion. Still, if a certain knucklehead (me) would get off his duff and make him a batch of knives, they'd sell like hotcakes all the livelong day. To that end, he is in the process of doing some hunting and gathering for me using all his connections from the gunshow network. Antler, bone, horn, and even lo and behold, IVORY.:eek:

I didn't have the heart to tell him that when the mood strikes me I also do Native American style beaded neck knife cases in rawhide covered with beaded buckskin. That would have just been too much for him.;)

Who knows, I always wanted a job doing what I consider to be fun. Retirement might not be that bad after all.:D

Sarge
 
Be nice work if you can get it and pay the bills with a little left over.
 
I know a poor, retarded Marine that would try to purchase some of the bead work.:) :D
 
I think it was one of the Rabbit boys that's the painter. He had some beautiful paintings at the Powwow of Champions put on by our Indin Club last August.
What was so interesting was the neck knives the Cherokee Warriors were wearing!!!!
They're rather large for neck knives, but were used for all purposes. The knives appear to have about a 5"-6" blade and comparable sized handle.
The knives are handle up in the sheaths and the sheaths are attached to a wide piece of leather that thins down as it progresses up around the neck.
The sheath is fully beaded as is the piece that's attached to it and it also continues a goodly way up the neck.
Everything lays nice and flat and neat and would be dayumed nigh undetectable under a shirt.
One of these days when I get a wild hair I may just try to make one for my Ray Kirk Raker Knife.
Ray's another good ol' Cherokee boy.:D
 
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