Some of you might have seen my fathers Bowie on Mr.Blakes Best Ever, but I wanted to show some more of his work. He was a master artist in every sense of the word and his attention to detail was outstanding. He was an extremely talented machinist and loved to work on several projects at the same time a little here, a little there, whatever he felt like at that particular day. He left behind several unfinished works I hope to someday finish and can only hope to do them justice. I do not have the 40+ years as tool and die experience he had or the ability to make the things he did but he did most of the hard stuff while he was still working and planned to finish after retirement, I have the materials to complete some outstanding pieces.

This is the Bowie he made with the scabbard made out of hollowed out moose antler and suede with brass caps and sheet silver cut out oak leaves (I still have the punch he made to cut out 2 different sizes) and copper acorns

As you can see this is a BEAUTIFUL piece of work! He inlayed the mule deer handle with dental silver after carving out the oak leaves (Why are these pics so large? I resized them to 600X450 ???)

sorry they just looked huge when previewed1 Here are some more!!

He also inlayed the pommel with dental silver and another copper acorn

nice fit to scabbard!!

A funny story he told me one time, He was a member of Cascade Mountain Men and was at rondevous and some guy was pestering him to sell the bowie or make him one like it and my father explained to him that he could not part with it or had the amount of time to make another one. Later the guy was walking past my fathers teepee and about had a heart attack when he saw my father splitting firewood with it!!!

and the file work on back of blade

Enough of that one heres a little one I like to carry Although not as fancy you can see the workmanship

just a couple picts, I got to go, will show some more later.

Those are nice. It's good that you have these and I know you cherish them. Thanks for letting us see them.  Lin

ol' school perfection, stknstrng. A lot of effort went into making that knife.

I like it!!!!

He tried somethingh a little different and scrimshawed the pommel on this one

some interesting file work

Very nice work. I would have liked to have watched him making them and learned from his expertise. Thanks for showing them.

Louis

Awesome that is some real talent.

nice looking blade, I did get to watch him some times and he wore this visor with magnifying lenses and cut the file work by hand after drawing it out on paper, I have notebooks full of scetches.

T like the shine on these blades too, and the family name