11-03-2007, 01:58 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: May 2007 Location: Montana
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| Latest Knife and sheath Though you all might like to see the latest knife and sheath i finished for another professional hunter out of Texas. Blade is High Carbon steel (W-1) Fittings are Wrough Iron Handle is Mesquite Burl Sheath is High Quality Wickett and Craig Double shoulder leather. Butterfly style pouch sheath with border stamping. Hope you all enjoy. This is the knife i had started in another thread various stages of me working on it. The next one I will take start to finish pictures for you as promised. |
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11-03-2007, 02:55 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: ponca city, oklahoma
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| awesome 
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11-03-2007, 07:44 AM
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| Thats the sorryest piece of crap I've ever saw...You better send it to ME where I can get rid of it for you !!!!  LOL  ...A.H |
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11-03-2007, 10:32 AM
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| Mr. Fixit  | Nice work! A lot of people overlook mesquite as just an ugly tree that makes meat taste good, but I've got some burls and root balls that are absolutely gorgeous.
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11-03-2007, 11:48 AM
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| Thanks for all the comments folks, This is the first time i have worked with mesquite burl and have some more. I really like this stuff. What do you all think of the sheath quality, Oh yea i dunno if you all know but when you click those photos , if you can exspand them to proper resoloution by holding over the photo and a red box will appear which you can click again that exspands photo. Its common on higher resoloution photos but i often wonder who many people know this. Last edited by Romey; 11-03-2007 at 11:51 AM. |
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11-04-2007, 10:35 AM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: South Arkansas
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| Romey you knew i was kidding didn't you ? Your an Artist !!! What more can I say...A.H |
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11-05-2007, 12:09 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: May 2007 Location: Montana
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| Yes i knew you were kidding! The next one, the one I intend on givin the picture tutorial will be of sambar stag ( a custom order to a avid bowhunter) and along with that I am hoping to get some more affordable white tail and mule deer handled knives available to the public by christmas. |
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11-05-2007, 05:32 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Newcastle, N.S.W, Australia
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| You sure do make some beautiful knives Romey, i love the look of the dark timber in the handle of this knife. |
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11-12-2007, 06:32 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: New York
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| That mesquite puts me in mind of a briar pipe my grandpa had when I was little. It looks like it's somewhere between top-grade briar and old-time French walnut. Beautiful work! Do you ever do anything with damascus steel? |
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11-13-2007, 02:06 AM
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| Senior Member Join Date: May 2007 Location: Montana
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| Yes i do at times, I used to do ALOT of it, but the market got so flodded with damascus, good and bad quality and very few makers do real good straight steel finishes that i do that i sort of too a break from damascus. I use it once in awhile for guards and end caps. I got so involved with high preformance stuff heat treating I put damascus on the side. |
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11-13-2007, 02:59 AM
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| That is nice!
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11-15-2007, 06:10 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: May 2007 Location: Montana
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| Thank you all, As long as you all like to see the different things I come up with Ill keep showing ya Nathan has seen a new sheath look for plain sheaths I think you all are going to think is pretty cool |
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11-15-2007, 08:46 PM
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|  Very nice. |
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11-27-2007, 11:12 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Oklahoma
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| As A.H. said you are indeed an artist. Beautiful knife. |
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11-27-2007, 03:59 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: May 2007 Location: Montana
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| Thank you all. Windwalker I see you are a retired Auctioneer, I think ill be going to auctioneer school in Billings Mt (Western College of Auctioneering) in march, (if i can get pulled away from calving season) or Oct of next year.(if i can get time between guiding scheduales) |
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11-27-2007, 04:06 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Northwest USA
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| Awesome knives Romey...and thanks for taking us through the process as you make Nathan's knife. Also, I signed up on your web site so you can send me updates/pictures as new knives become available...
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12-17-2007, 11:36 PM
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| Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Santa Maria, CA
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| Nice work Romey! That wood looks awesome on that knife. I like your site as well; I better start saving my ducats for the future! |
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12-20-2007, 12:14 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Lincoln, Nebraska...
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| Sheath and knife are both beautiful, How tightly does the knife fit in the sheath? |
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12-22-2007, 04:12 AM
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| Senior Member Join Date: May 2007 Location: Montana
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| The sheath fits very tight especially on that style sheath but all my sheaths are made to exactly fit the knife it comes with. You can turn them upside down and shake them, throw the package to the ground whatever and the knife WONT fall out. I use the highest grade US vegtan leather there is called wicket and craig, I prefer 9 oz leather for most sheaths and used a linen thread for hand stitching which unlike a saddle stitch or lock stitch wont unravel if a stitch is broken. |
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