Wild Geezers collaboration #1.

Tai Goo

Tai Goo

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Blade by Ray Richard (Senior Geezer), handle by Tai Goo (Junior Geezer),… sheath to come by Chuck Burrows, (AKA Wild Rose Geezer)... :)

From here it goes to Chuck for the sheath, then back over to Ray for the finishing touches on the blade,… then back to me for the final assembly.

The handle is Staghorn Cholla (cactus skeleton), a bronze guard with a brass coin spacer and a twisted mild steel wire wrapped ferrule. The three end pieces are mild steel, bronze and brass.

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On The Bench 2009:
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v453/taigoo/On The Bench 2009/
 
You guys need to get together more often,I bought some of that cholla awhile back and wondered what to do with it....A great job by all of you,a very slick blade:thumbup::thumbup:Regards Butch
 
That's great, Tai. Kudos to everyone involved. How did you stabilize the cholla? That's nasty stuff when you brush against it.

--nathan
 
Thanks.

I harvested the cholla green, peeled it and dried it with the natural pith intact. Then, I cleaned the pith out of the core and filled it with epoxy. Lastly, I sealed it with shellac.

The cholla tends to be very stable naturally, because of the structure of it. It really tends not to shrink or crack much anyway. The “Staghorn Cholla” also has the most solid skeleton of all the cactus and is the only kind I use for handles. A one inch diameter piece has about a ¼ inch diameter pith core. There are actually several different types of cholla, but none of the others are really solid enough. I have quite a bit of the Staghorn growing on my land. It gets quite large, up to about 10-12 feet high or so.

“Staghorn” is an appropriate name for it. It reminds me of stag in several ways.
 
Neato Tai! Very original and nicely done.

Good to see you back on the forum too.
 
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