Wild Rose Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 This one is going to a professor of art in Spain - Gib would be pleased! As always it's even better in person - the subtle variations/nuances of the colors are much richer in person and of course there is the tactile senses, of touch and smell, which one cannot enjoy from a picture. Here are the specifications: Blade length: 5 9/16" - blade has a bit of filework on it Blade steel: 5160 Overall length: 10" Handle: mule deer leg bone with a buffalo rawhide and hemp thread wrap Guard: Brass Sheath: Bark tan cowhide liner with a carved deer rawhide cover Decoration: Beaded brain tan buckskin cuff and beaded lower edge with brass tacks and nails. Glass beads, tin cone, and buffalo hair danglers. The belt loop is bark tan cowhide with a carved deer rawhide "fix'it" patch Chuck Burrows Wild Rose Trading Co chuck@wrtcleather.com www.wrtcleather.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wade Hougham Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 Your work gives me the feeling of actually being in the time period of which you execute so perfectly. This is a great package, the soon to be owner is going to love it. Who wouldn't? Fantastic work. Wade Wade Jos et löydä rauhaa itsestämme on turhaa etsiä sitä muualta. If you can not find peace within yourself, it is useless to look elsewhere. Visit my website http://www.wadesknives.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Potter Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 Well done, Beautiful, a coheasive piece. Ben Potter Bladesmith It's not that I would trade my lot Or any other man's, Nor that I will be ashamed Of my work torn hands- For I have chosen the path I tread Knowing it would be steep, And I will take the joys thereof And the consequences reap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Longmire Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 Another awesome package, Chuck! Love the details on the sheath, that faint tooling is sweet! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Mulkey Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 You've done it again! Very nice. Beautiful match of knife & sheath! One would think that both are well preserved 150 year old pieces. Keep it up. Always nice to view your posts. Gary Gary ABS,CKCA,ABKA,KGA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacques Delfosse Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 may I cry ?????????? why is that not for me ????????????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mat Maresch Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 This is drop dead gorgeous!!! The blade is wonderful, and the handle and sheath do her justice. Thanks for showing, Mat www.mareschmesser.de Knifemaker, Germany Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charred Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 thats really inspiring Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karl B. Andersen Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 Every single knife you post just leaves me shaking my head, wondering how deep that well is that you dip into for your ideas. You are an endless source of amazement and inspiration. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stick Posted February 6, 2009 Share Posted February 6, 2009 yep, yep ..thats awesome. I love the blade shape and patina..just awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Price Posted February 8, 2009 Share Posted February 8, 2009 How many of Gib's blades do you still have lying around? He sure was prolific, and had a very distinctive style. I love what you're doing with them. The Tidewater Forge Christopher Price, Bladesmith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wild Rose Posted February 9, 2009 Author Share Posted February 9, 2009 Glad ya'll enjoyed the look see - this was a nice change from the bogger piece I so often do. Karl - my well is plenty deep! mainly due to the fact the there are so many original pieces that are an inspiration to me...I seldom do exact replicas anymore (you really have to pull my leg!) since I now prefer to do my own designs, still based on the originals as to methods, materials, and styles but which I often mix and match somewhat (i'm of mixed blood heritage so I figure I'm allowed!!.....) I also get inspired by/borrow from originals that aren't sheaths - beadwork in particular.......... Some good resources to see originals online: www.splendidheritage.com Plains Indian museum www.bbhc.org http://anthro.amnh.org/anthropology/databa...orth_public.htm that's just a start..I recently heard that the Smithsonian is going to be putting their collections on line!!!!! and then there are inspiring contemporary makers (such as Alan Longmire, who isn't "allowed" to visit the BBHC site anymore because the last time he broke it! he he) - some of their finest work can be seen at: www.longrifle.ws http://contemporarymakers.blogspot.com/ Chris - Gib was prolific for sure. Off the top of my head I've got 10 or 11 blades to make up for sale: a mix of hawk heads - 2, warclub heads - 3, and knife blades - 6 or 7. I've got two pieces I'm working on right now: a pipehawk (a three way collaboration since I'm adding a bowl by Stuart Willis) and a cable Damascus knife. That number doesn't include the 6 pieces I'm keeping for myself: a hawk and 5 knives - one of which I use as a shop knife. Mine also includes the only "shear steel" blade Gib made from original blister steel - some early 19th Century wagon springs I got from a friend and had Gib forge into a near "copy" of a 9" relic "riflemans" knife blade found at Ft Ticonderoga, NY Chuck Burrows Wild Rose Trading Co chuck@wrtcleather.com www.wrtcleather.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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