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Main Discussion Area => Primitive Skills => Topic started by: El Destructo on April 12, 2008, 12:51:10 am

Title: GEORGETOWN CHERT AND CHOLLA KNIFE
Post by: El Destructo on April 12, 2008, 12:51:10 am: OK....so I have gotten run astray again!!! Somewhere along the Line "Cowboy".... through this Indian way off Track!! Here is my Second Knife in less than three Weeks....and I still haven't picked up my Cupids Bow to work on it ::)

This Knife is Cholla Handled like My last one I made with a Birdseye Pommel....the Blade is Georgetown Chert...This is a Big Knife....it is 12 inches overall....the Blade is 6 1/2" long and 1 5/8" wide...the Blade was set with Pitch and Charcoal....and hafted with Gut and Hide Glue....these are so much fun to make....I think I am going to make a Tomahawk and a War Lance next!! >:D

(http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk247/yankeemongiat/GeorgetownFlintandChollaKnife004.jpg)
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(http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk247/yankeemongiat/GeorgetownFlintandChollaKnife002.jpg)
Title: Re: GEORGETOWN CHERT AND CHOLLA KNIFE
Post by: huntertrapper on April 12, 2008, 01:02:52 am: awesome. hope ta see ya guttin a deer or hog with it. that would be cool to see a 'hawk or lance done. ;)
Title: Re: GEORGETOWN CHERT AND CHOLLA KNIFE
Post by: david w. on April 12, 2008, 01:07:00 am: WOW thats one of the prettiest knifes i have seen. i love the blade and the cactus handle
Title: Re: GEORGETOWN CHERT AND CHOLLA KNIFE
Post by: Sparrow on April 12, 2008, 01:10:18 am: Very nice.Makes me want to go find some cholla ! Frank
Title: Re: GEORGETOWN CHERT AND CHOLLA KNIFE
Post by: El Destructo on April 12, 2008, 01:28:00 am: Thanks guys for the Compliments on the Knife....I am really having fun with these...staying up all night to get them done....sort of the way I was with the Bows when I first got addicted!!!

Quote from: Fishoonah on April 12, 2008, 01:10:18 am
Very nice.Makes me want to go find some cholla ! Frank

Don't think that there is too much of it growing up there....Frank....but I bet I can locate some more...and maybe trade you for some Fish Skins or Fur of some kind....
Title: Re: GEORGETOWN CHERT AND CHOLLA KNIFE
Post by: Otoe Bow on April 12, 2008, 01:30:19 am: Awesome knife Yankee. Cholla.... :-\ .....is that the stuff that when you turn it end for end makes that "stardust" sound? ;D Sorry about that, but that's what it reminds me of. Man that Georgetown is some pretty stuff. It all makes a stunning knife.

Mike
Title: Re: GEORGETOWN CHERT AND CHOLLA KNIFE
Post by: El Destructo on April 12, 2008, 01:36:54 am: No Mike ....I think that you are referring to Chilean Rainsticks....theyare Cactus that they dry out...push the Spines inward and fill with sand and Pebbles to make that nice earthy sound.... These are just a Mean Desert Cactus that will tear up a Truck if you run one over....and make you hurt like Hell when they stick you....like a Hornet Sting!!
Title: Re: GEORGETOWN CHERT AND CHOLLA KNIFE
Post by: Hillbilly on April 12, 2008, 01:07:43 pm: Man, that's a great looking knife, blade and handle both. Did you knap the blade? That cholla is some cooll looking material.
Title: Re: GEORGETOWN CHERT AND CHOLLA KNIFE
Post by: El Destructo on April 12, 2008, 03:15:44 pm: Quote from: Hillbilly on April 12, 2008, 01:07:43 pm
Man, that's a great looking knife, blade and handle both. Did you knap the blade? That cholla is some cooll looking material.

Thanks Hillbilly....I am proud of this Knife myself....I like working with the Cholla...just have to wear a Dust Mask...it will give you a Respiratory Infection...if you breath the Dust...

No....I could and would not take the Credit for this Blade....this Blade was knapped by a Disabled Cherokee Elder from Pryor Oklahoma....He has me call Him Do-Da...pronounced Doe- Dah....He is 83 and does this for a Hobby....I really like them...He does a good Job...considering His Age and Handicap...hell I cant knapp one and I have the use of all of my Body!!!
Title: Re: GEORGETOWN CHERT AND CHOLLA KNIFE
Post by: huntertrapper on April 12, 2008, 11:50:08 pm: thats great knapping and good to see old skills still done by elders of a tribe.
Title: Re: GEORGETOWN CHERT AND CHOLLA KNIFE
Post by: cowboy on April 13, 2008, 12:29:11 am: That's another nice knife Yankee. I was gonna say that if you knapped those, you learned how to knap a hellofa lot faster than I did ;D.
Title: Re: GEORGETOWN CHERT AND CHOLLA KNIFE
Post by: Otoe Bow on April 13, 2008, 01:46:35 am: Hey Yankee, I do have a serious question. Is the end of the handle a cap of a different wood or does it just look that way? Either way it is nice.

Mike
Title: Re: GEORGETOWN CHERT AND CHOLLA KNIFE
Post by: El Destructo on April 13, 2008, 03:05:44 am: Quote from: Otoe Bow on April 13, 2008, 01:46:35 am
Hey Yankee, I do have a serious question. Is the end of the handle a cap of a different wood or does it just look that way? Either way it is nice.

Mike

Hey Mike.....nice Name by the way!!....the Pommel end of the Knife is made from a thin strip of Shagbark Hickory and a block of Birdseye Maple....and thanks for the Compliment
Mike "Yankee" Roberts

Cowboy....you are good...but not good enough to teach me to knapp telepathically!!! I met this Old Gentleman when I was working a Power Plant Job in Oklahoma....and trading You for that Knife Blade....I thought of Him again...and bought a few from Him...I really like them....I am sure that I could buy better....but not from a Better Man!! One Day I will learn to Knapp too....I just have to sit down and practice....right.... ::)
Title: Re: GEORGETOWN CHERT AND CHOLLA KNIFE
Post by: cowboy on April 13, 2008, 04:29:33 pm: Yep, you have to lay everything else down and concentrate on that rock ;D.
Title: Re: GEORGETOWN CHERT AND CHOLLA KNIFE
Post by: El Destructo on April 13, 2008, 07:03:22 pm: Quote from: cowboy on April 13, 2008, 04:29:33 pm
Yep, you have to lay everything else down and concentrate on that rock ;D.

Well Today I had to lay everything down to do Taxes....and that Sux!!
Title: Re: GEORGETOWN CHERT AND CHOLLA KNIFE
Post by: cowboy on April 13, 2008, 10:40:38 pm: Waitin till the last minute eh? We done spent all our return, months ago :P.
Title: Re: GEORGETOWN CHERT AND CHOLLA KNIFE
Post by: El Destructo on April 14, 2008, 01:15:00 am: Quote from: cowboy on April 13, 2008, 10:40:38 pm
Waitin till the last minute eh? We done spent all our return, months ago :P.

Return....I still owe then Buggers about 3 grand more!!
Title: Re: GEORGETOWN CHERT AND CHOLLA KNIFE
Post by: cowboy on April 14, 2008, 01:16:19 am: Dude - that sucks :-X.
Title: Re: GEORGETOWN CHERT AND CHOLLA KNIFE
Post by: El Destructo on April 14, 2008, 01:18:14 am: Quote from: cowboy on April 14, 2008, 01:16:19 am
Dude - that sucks :-X.

Tell Me....we paid like 19,985 in already....and still owe 3,000.....man I need some deductions....is Bow Building a Business Loss???

>:D >:D >:D >:D
Title: Re: GEORGETOWN CHERT AND CHOLLA KNIFE
Post by: cowboy on April 14, 2008, 01:24:02 am: Jeeze man, what the hell kinda business you runnin :D? Wish you could deduct fer wood and rocks, don't think they have that yet, hehe ;D.
Title: Re: GEORGETOWN CHERT AND CHOLLA KNIFE
Post by: El Destructo on April 14, 2008, 02:04:54 am: Wifes a Stillman in the Conocophillips Refinery....and I am a heavy Crane Operator....just Blue Collar Crap.....