re. Pewter inlays

[gijaney]

A tremendous "thank you!" to all who responded to my post on 01-14-05, concerning "how-to" a pewter inlay. A friend of mine and I still can't believe it was as simple as using manilla paper and masking tape! Thanks for the photos, Wild Rose (nice website, by the way), shows what can be done with a little bit of know-how. Would you believe I even e-mailed the Smithsonian as well as the U of Minnesota (no response from either, yet) and some private artisans, and what I got from the artists were pointers on using a soldering iron. Only worked so-so for me. So the point is, the good folks and artists here at BLADEFORUMS know more and are willing to share, unlike some other,world-class institutions! Thanks again, and happy forging.

 

[Shakudo]

everyone knows Chuck just had a birthday and is showing his age.most of the sheath and pewter and knife instructions were probably from Ben Hunt's book of indiancraft.a boyscout standard for the last 60 years.

 

[Wild Rose]

And my motto is still "Be Prepared"

As a note - at the bottom of the pewter tutorial is the following:

The graphics are copyright/courtesy of Macmillan Publishing and are copied from the book "The Complete How-To Book of Indiancraft" by W. Ben Hunt

I ALWAYS give credit where credit is due - something I think is HIGHLY important for ALL makers to take note of. I'm not so good that I can't be inspired or influenced by someone else or learn form some one else (even newbies! who can often bring a "fresh" perspective), and when I am then I want the world to know the effect they had on my work.

There is a LOT of fairly easily obtainable info out there today (especially with the advent of the Web) - too often I see newbies (and some not so new ) re-inventing the wheel so to speak because they either don't do research or don't know how to to do the research or maybe worst of all don't ask.
Most of us old Geezers (Dan included ) weren't quite so lucky - when we first started out the only computers around filled a good sized room, most written info was available via libraries and too often the info you wanted was only available in the bigger/better ones which unfortunately for this ole country boy were only in larger cities. On top of that a lot of the "old" timers when we were young were too often contrary about sharing their "secrets".

Now as to my sheaths - Ben got me started for sure, but I've gone a looooong ways down that road since then