WildGoo #3 - A Frontier Bowie........

Wild Rose

Wild Rose

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This is the third collaboration piece between Wild Rose Trading Co (aka my wife Linda and me) and Tai Goo - thus the Wild Goo moniker - and the first where I've gotten to put the knife together using one of Tai's fantabulous blades as well as build the sheath....

Here's the blade as I got it from Tai (99% forged to shape with minimal file work to clean it up!) and after I got the guard and grip mounted.....
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and here it is all finished up...........
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A couple of detail shots.......
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Blade: 7 3/4" x 1 1/2" hand forged by Tai Goo
OAL: 13 5/8"
Grip: Sambar stag crown with bison rawhide wrap and brass tacks
Guard: brass - cast from an original Bowie some 30+ years ago (I just love those old "orphan pieces)
Buttcap: Nickel concho from an old circa 1890's saddle
Pewter inlay engraved with the owner's initials
Sheath: elk rawhide over a bark tan liner with a brain tan deer cuff. Deco is copper and glass beads, horse and buffalo hair, tin cone tinklers, brass tacks, and rattle snake skin.

Hope ya'll enjoy looking as much as we did making.........
 
Great job on the sheath and fittings Chuck. You make me look good bro! :)
 
I knew I was going to see something cool and rustic. I love this combination.

Great work by all three of you.

Edited to add:

Well I certainly have been out of touch with what has been going on. Just went through a bunch of Tai's posts.

Now that sure was fun. :D

So Tai, ya gotta come back to Atlanta next year. (You know you and yours have a place to stay.)
-g
 
That is superb great combo:thumbup: :thumbup:
Great details.
Thanks for sharing.
Mitch
 
Bastid said:
I knew I was going to see something cool and rustic. I love this combination.

Great work by all three of you.

Edited to add:

Well I certainly have been out of touch with what has been going on. Just went through a bunch of Tai's posts.

Now that sure was fun. :D

So Tai, ya gotta come back to Atlanta next year. (You know you and yours have a place to stay.)
-g
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Thanks Bastid. I'd really like to do that sometime. :)
 
That is massively cool! I just got my new desktop backround.:thumbup:
 
Interesting work! It looks to be well-done, but........
Stag should never be burned with a torch. I know that Case does it, but to a purist it is the mark of an amateur, and it stands out like a sore thumb. Stag should be worked with the natural coloration and contour kept as intact as possible.
Bill
 
Thanks I guess - and FWIW no torch/heat was used. I applied several shades of stain to age it to match the rest of the rig - the different areas took the stain at different rates/levels - this was followed by a lot of hand burnishing which removed some of the stain in the wear areas leaving them lighter in color. I know others do flame, but I tried the method a long time ago and didn't care for the effect so quit. In the case of my work - leaving the stag in it's natural color after sanding to shape would really stick out like a sore thumb with all the rest being aged.....but each to their own I reckon.
As for the contour? - other than removing the brow tine and shaping it to fit the guard the shape was unchanged.
 
There's absolutely nothing amateurish about those knives, not one thing. Very, very nice looking stuff!
 
I didn't mean your work was substandard. It is very difficult to artificially age stag. I haven't figured a good way to do it.
As far as my contour statement, I meant surface contour of the stag "bark." I should have been more clear. I would have used a smaller tine, to minimize the grinding at the guard junction so there would be less area to age. Sometimes you just gotta dance with who brung ya. I understand if that's what you had to work with.
I really was trying to be helpful.
Bill
 
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