Hornswoggled!

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Just had to bring these Beauties over to the second page!! :D

Dave
 
Not a great picture but here is an old 84mm SAK tourist in buffalo horn, next time I'm at my collection I'll grab a better picture.
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Killer collection Dave!! With tang stamps I've never seen before!
Thanks to you for persisting with PB!! (and to Photobucket for diegning* to allow you to post the pics!!)


*deign;
to condescend reluctantly and with a strong sense of the affront to one's superiority!
sigh!!:cool:
 
Thank you Jack and Charlie!!
I was lucky to acquire these a few years back!


Dave
 

A couple that belong here! ;)
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Dave


I love the diversity in the horn on those knives shown already. Here is an older pic of some of my horn, all buffalo horn in this shot.



A bunch of beauties shown here... I am going to have to start doing some looking but horn and lambsfoot in particular might have to be part of my near future. Thanks for sharing guys.
 
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This project (the two knives above) got me playing with buffalo leather too.

Three elk handled bowies. The sheaths are water buffalo leather, the frogs are water buffalo tanned a different way and the accent shields on the sheaths are American Bison.

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Thanks again, Dave G!!:thumbsup:
Beautiful work, Dave F!!:thumbsup:
A wonderful old Beauty, Steve!!:thumbsup:
 
Charlie- outstanding Knives- all of them - But that JR !! Wow! beautiful!

Augie....I have always like the Buck 110 for a backpocket- Jacket Pocket Carry- and that Rama Horn is Spectacular- I do hear that even when wet that the Rams Horn really sticks to the hand and doesnt slip around. - What a neat Knife my friend!

Dave ( Knowtracks) - What Charlie said.... What beuaties- and what awesome Tang Stamps and Blade Stampings/etchings- I cant get enough of the early English / American heavy stamping. Fantastic examples my friend- a real pleasure to view!

S-K as always mate, splendid example!
 
Great looking knives everyone. This is a French pruning knife circa early 1900s.

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This one quietly says a lot about the durability of horn as a handle material. It has seen good honest work, but looks ready to get back to it! Impressive material as someone's daily user on a farm, especially considering it is bolsterless. Great stuff, SK! Given the title of the thread (thanks Waynorth!), it is interesting to get a chance to see examples of both the durability as well as the beauty this classic material. Great to see!
 
Question/ challenge-
Whats the rarest type of horn used on a knife? Obviously not cow or ram, nor buffalo(which is essentially a cow with attitude).
The Bison (American Buffalo) perhaps or something rarer-Antler doesn't count because its not horn.
Goat?
A specific species of wild sheep or goat- eg Ibex or Barbary sheep?
must be something out there.
Unicorn horn is the rarest. I have never seen even one yet. :p

My favorites are cape buffalo horn, and musk ox horn (which is on the knife in my avatar).
 
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