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Offline jamie

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raw texas blade
« on: February 01, 2010, 12:27:23 pm »
museum wanted another knife that looked rougher than the stuff ive been making so i knocked this one out. gonna haft it to a deer leg bone with some scrimshaw on it.

p.s. the finger was cut at work not knapping. slipped on ice with a broken bottle in my hand  :'( ;D



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Re: raw texas blade
« Reply #1 on: February 01, 2010, 12:39:25 pm »
Nice blade!  Looks excellent and will look even cooler attached to bone!  Post pics of it hafted, too!   :)  -josh
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Re: raw texas blade
« Reply #2 on: February 01, 2010, 02:11:59 pm »
Nice I like that one jamie looks like a caveman made it, oh wait one did ;) :D
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Re: raw texas blade
« Reply #3 on: February 01, 2010, 02:37:20 pm »
Your having too much fun Jamie! Bet that one was tough to knock out..
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Re: raw texas blade
« Reply #4 on: February 01, 2010, 07:54:35 pm »
Good and clean for the material. A sign of a man that knows what he's doing.
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Re: raw texas blade
« Reply #5 on: February 01, 2010, 08:12:44 pm »
thanks guys. found the only difference with the unheated is you need to swing a little harder and not make any mistakes. easy right  ;D
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Re: raw texas blade
« Reply #6 on: February 01, 2010, 08:55:33 pm »
 That's a cool little blade.  Man, you have been cranking them out, you still working? ;D That swinging harder is the reason I quit knocking a piece of and just started loading rock Sunday. My hand and fingers were getting too sore.
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Re: raw texas blade
« Reply #7 on: February 02, 2010, 12:09:51 am »
a little work, a little knappin, a little work, a little knappin  ;D
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Re: raw texas blade
« Reply #8 on: February 02, 2010, 12:23:23 am »
a little work, a little knappin, a little work, a little knappin  ;D
Sounds like what I did this weekend. Only my schedule was...A little knapping, a little napping, a little knapping, a little napping... :D
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Re: raw texas blade
« Reply #9 on: February 02, 2010, 12:25:18 am »
Great job bro as usual..
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Re: raw texas blade
« Reply #10 on: February 02, 2010, 12:50:20 am »
Nice work Jamie. Is it abo?
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Re: raw texas blade
« Reply #11 on: February 02, 2010, 06:41:12 am »
thanks, i used antler except for a couple of fixes here and there. i used a copper pressure flaker to dig out some of the nasty
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Re: raw texas blade
« Reply #12 on: February 02, 2010, 12:04:04 pm »
Nice blade jamie.That's sweet. :)
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