Primitive Bowie

G L Drew

G L Drew

Knifemaker / Craftsman / Service Provider
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I have been forging some reenactment and cowboy knives lately and this one was especially fun. I didn't try to be historically correct, I just wanted to make it look like it came from the local blacksmith over 100 years ago. The sheath is rawhide over vegetable tanned leather sewn with artificial sinew. I darkened the deer antler with Ritz dye to give it an aged look. The guard is forged from an old wagon wheel and etched to show the grain in the wrought iron. This will go to a show with me this week-end where I hope to get some interesting feedback (and maybe even sell it).

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show this weekend? Charlotte/Metrolina gun and knife show maybe? If so, i'll probably be there. (looking, not selling)

randy
 
rwn2000 said:
show this weekend? Charlotte/Metrolina gun and knife show maybe? If so, i'll probably be there. (looking, not selling)

randy
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That's the show Randy. However, I am sending my wife with a box of knives to do the show while I go to a Clay Spencer power hammer build. If we get all the hammers done in time I might be able to join her at the show on Sunday. Stop by and offer her $5 for the bowie, you never know, she might just take it.
 
great looking knife I like a forge finish.Rats! I always find out to late about the tire Hammer builds.Is it a the school, in Haywood?
 
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