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Old 12-07-2008, 09:16 PM
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Another one for Canada

A beautiful east meets west knife by ABS mastersmith Bill Burke gets an east meets west sheath by yours truly......







The lower section carving was inspired by the carving on an original Japanses sword - the upper section is a rayskin overlay wrapped with black silk cord ala a Katana. The belt loop has a rayskin inlay.......

Anyone note the "surprise".......


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Old 12-08-2008, 04:12 AM
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Beautifull sheath and knife i like the wild rose carving.

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Old 12-08-2008, 04:55 AM
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Thank Robert and it does look like a wild rose but I believe it is a hummingbird and cherry tree with blossoms, which would fit the Japanese original.........


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Old 12-08-2008, 09:02 AM
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Chuck, dear friend---------What a beautifully executed sheath!! The surprise could be multi-faceted instead of singular. The stitching on the face of the sheath is hidden and the welted edge of the sheath appears to be capped. The double guard of the knife is fitted into the interior of the sheath giving it the appearance of a pouch without the mass one would associate with that construction. Stitching at the mouth of the sheath would indicate either a lining is installed or the tooled face of the sheath is an overlay.

Did I come close?

Best of the season to you and Linda------------------Sandy


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Old 12-09-2008, 12:03 AM
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You've been hanging out with Tai Goo!!


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Old 12-09-2008, 03:13 AM
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Chuck, dear friend---------What a beautifully executed sheath!! The surprise could be multi-faceted instead of singular. The stitching on the face of the sheath is hidden and the welted edge of the sheath appears to be capped. The double guard of the knife is fitted into the interior of the sheath giving it the appearance of a pouch without the mass one would associate with that construction. Stitching at the mouth of the sheath would indicate either a lining is installed or the tooled face of the sheath is an overlay.

Did I come close?

Best of the season to you and Linda------------------Sandy
While I was specifically talking about the stitching you hit on all of the things that made this one of the most (probably the most) complicated sheath I've ever built - especially nerve wracking was, as you noted, keeping the "mass down" due to making it a pouch for a double guard - the only thing I didn't do in your list is cap the edge - just happened that the leather was very dense and I was able to get the edges well smoothed/polished.......The upper pouch is lined and the blade goes into a fitted core. The rayskin is overlayed and wrapped around the edge to the backside - my step-by-step progress list had about twenty-five steps in all to get from point A to B...

I lost a bit of hair and a whole bunch more turned gray with this one - I'm sticking to frontier from now on - MUCH easier on the nerves!

May you and yours also have a great holiday!

Rick - Tai can't take the "blame" for this one...it is totally the product of my "fevered" brain!


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Old 12-09-2008, 08:34 AM
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I think it's great Chuck! I don't think I've seen anything like it, especially from you. You are full of surprises. Another piece of art from you that lives up to your slogan.


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