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ya!

GWB

Party time...

Stayin' away from Deadwood!



ya!

GWB

Dude

you seen this one!

Great stuff..

Thanks Sam./

GW;
Good evening to you sir, sorry I missed this earlier.

The one on the right is a Bark River Micro Canadian in A2 I think??? Since I bought it used on a Canuck forum I'm not super sure what the steel is or how old.

The other two are a matched set that the maker called "Dwayne's knives" - cause I made 'em GW....

Here's another photo of them together.


They're made from Simmonds D2 planer blade steel, cold ground so I didn't bugger up the temper and to my own odd grind line as I'd seen another guy do that, read why he'd done it and figured - why not? The handles are California Bighorn ewe horn from a carcass pickup a buddy gave me decades ago.

I do a wee bit of leather work from time to time and did up the sheath one afternoon too. They sometimes ride in my backpack or in the side door pocket of the pickup. So far I've liked the shape and D2 quite well.

Once upon a time I used to make more knives GW - wasn't super good at it or really knew what I was doing, but just liked to fool with different things. The antler handle ones and some of the fancy wood scale ones come from me, the rest from all parts of the globe really.


I've got a bit of a "thing" for knives GW - something I believe we could talk about for quite a good long while if we had some Shiner and a fire...


That was a fancy cooking knife I traded a big ZT folder with an Elmax blade for.

More cooking blades.


Camping sorta knives.


I was going to post a couple more but it looks like that's my limit for this post.

Later GW.

Dwayne

T Inman;
Thanks for the reply, I appreciate it.

To be sure I am not certain it's not grizzly poop as it's absolutely one of the routes where they cross out of the Okanagan and head west over to Princeton country where they also head south into Washington.

We're within spitting distance of Washington. Here it is in the center of the shot - the two top peaks are in Washington.


Think this would be either in or very close to Washington - on the left side.


Lastly I'd say everything to the left of the two larger peaks should be Washington.


The grizzlies cross the Okanagan in that drainage behind our house, head over into the country in the photos and then go west or south from there.

Thanks for the kind words and once again for your contributions. All the best to you this week T.

Dwayne

Dwayne,



I am a fan of the Canadian Belt knife style blade...........





as well as the Nessmuk style blades




should you ever decide to part with those two "Dwayne knives" I would like to call "first dibs".

ya!


GWB

There's more sage in that country than I thought there would be. Looks like good spot and stalk kind of country...

You have a good rest of your weekend too.

Happy trails....

GW;
Thanks for the reply once again sir, you absolutely will be the first call - after the girls of course.

The eldest sorta has it bad like the old man though, so I'm not sure whether she'd need more or not. Here's what she had awhile back.


Both girls liked all things Japanese when they were younger - wouldn't you know it the eldest has since traveled there - solo for 60 + days no less. Kid's eh?

Here's what they got one Christmas.


My mother - at that time - asked if it was okay them having functional swords and all. I replied - "they've got rifles Mom"!

I'm sorta liking this little bird and trout blade I picked up on ebay as a blank blade made from 52100. I put on the maple scales and cobbled together a sheath. It's about right for bung hole coring duty as well as starting around the legs on deer.


Lastly the bottom 4 are reshaped roofing hammers that work pretty well for light work on briskets and such.


Thanks again for the grand discourse tonight GW and certainly for sharing your wonderful taste in fine liquor and blades - you are indeed a class act.

Dwayne

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The dude abides.

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