For the Love of Wood
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Opinel No 8 Luxe
Vit, nice family pic. I just added the ebony to my walnut and oak and sure love its dark and mysterious shine (and its heft!) . Will post a pic in the next days... Thx for posting yours!
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Horsewright
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So a few weekends ago we set our booth up and did a show.
It was a ranch roping competition and the wife was competing as well. As far as a show goes it was very slow. Just nobody there but competitors seemed like. Mostly there were a lot of fires going on nearby and that kept folks away I guess:
It was snowing ashes and the light was weird. Look how smoky and weird the light is at mid day when the wife and her partner went in:
However and back to point of this thread, I did make a couple of good trades. I got this pair of blued steel silver inlaid spurs for a reata (a four strand braided rawhide rope) that i'd just traded for about 3 minutes earlier and a bocote handled filet knife:
But the big trade was for this pelican and a dolphin with a lady that had used to live in Mexico 20 odd years ago and she brought these with her when she moved back up here. My step daughter thought I was "cuckoo for cocoa puffs" trading for these. She said what ya gonna do with em stick em on the bar in the cantina?
Heck no I'm gonna cut em up and make knife handles out of em. Some pretty nice ironwood in there. This is a few slices from the base of the pelican. Its only at 60 grit here, imagine when they are finished they will be at 4000 grit and buffed. Good trade?
It was a ranch roping competition and the wife was competing as well. As far as a show goes it was very slow. Just nobody there but competitors seemed like. Mostly there were a lot of fires going on nearby and that kept folks away I guess:
It was snowing ashes and the light was weird. Look how smoky and weird the light is at mid day when the wife and her partner went in:
However and back to point of this thread, I did make a couple of good trades. I got this pair of blued steel silver inlaid spurs for a reata (a four strand braided rawhide rope) that i'd just traded for about 3 minutes earlier and a bocote handled filet knife:
But the big trade was for this pelican and a dolphin with a lady that had used to live in Mexico 20 odd years ago and she brought these with her when she moved back up here. My step daughter thought I was "cuckoo for cocoa puffs" trading for these. She said what ya gonna do with em stick em on the bar in the cantina?
Heck no I'm gonna cut em up and make knife handles out of em. Some pretty nice ironwood in there. This is a few slices from the base of the pelican. Its only at 60 grit here, imagine when they are finished they will be at 4000 grit and buffed. Good trade?
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That mesquite is pretty. I have never seen it on a knife before. I really like it .Good ole Texas Mesquite ... one of my favorite woods.
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You're right either way!! Cocobolo is a rosewood! Not to worry I've made lots of knives with both as handles and I can't tell either.
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My old Kaufman Daddy Barlow . Carried it quite a bit some time go
