Coyote Dag & Neck Sheath

[ChuckBurrows]

I've still got a few of my late compadre, Gib Guignard's hand forged blades so I handled up this 4 1/2" dag style using a pair of coyote jawbones with buffalo rawhide wrap.

The neck sheath is braintan over a bark tan liner and the neck piece is braintan with red trade wool liner. The sheath is decorated with denatalium shells, glass, copper, and brass beads, fringe, tin cone and buffalo hair dangles.

anyway a little Christmas eye candy - may you all have a VERY Happy Holidays.................

[MADMAX22]

WoW that is really cool. I like it.

[badger]

Wow!

Blown away.

Karl

[Dags3777]

That is, if one can say it about a knife. Beautiful. Darryl

[Kowboyboots]

That is beautiful!

Thank you for sharing it.

[moon]

WOW ,that looks great Chuck!!One question,how did you get the aged look on the jawbones?

[ChuckBurrows]

Glad ya'll enjoyed the look see....

WOW ,that looks great Chuck!!One question,how did you get the aged look on the jawbones?

Drum roll.......ta da - leather dye - I use Fiebings Spirit dyes in various mixes to get what colors I want - this was IIRC thinned dark brown, followed by rubbing down with 4/0 steel wool, and then a coat of my own home made violin varnish - a pretty good substitute is Tried & True's Oil Varnish.....

[Wyvern]

Man, now that is awsome! I love the antique look!

[megabit]

Wow what a crappy job you did, you should pack it up and send it to me so no one sees it. ;D Great work and very cool.

[ClayB]

That looks really cool, both the knife, and the sheath!!!

[Butch]

I have to add one more. WOW!

Very nice.

[sodapop]

i just love that rustic lookin blade on that thing...very nice indeedy!!

darryl

[Kowboyboots]

You have a lot of BEAUTIFUL items on your web site. WOW!

Is the Knifesheath-Quilled_Ioerger_1 quilled?

Would you adopt me, LOL, I want to learn from you?

Edited December 24, 2008 by Kowboyboots

[Greybeard]

Sweet Build and Awesome craftsmanship!

[ChuckBurrows]

Too much snow and too much work to get done kept me from getting back soonly - glad ya'll enjoyed the looks see and the very kind words - this type of work is my real "passion" these days...........

You have a lot of BEAUTIFUL items on your web site. WOW!

Is the Knifesheath-Quilled_Ioerger_1 quilled?

Would you adopt me, LOL, I want to learn from you?

Howdy - yep that one and a couple of others are quilled.

If you're interested in quilling I'd start with the www.nativetech.org site - they have the basic info and several good books are listed as well - William Orchard's is pretty much a must have and I like Jean Heinbuch's too. There are some fairly significant tribal/are style and color differences so if you really want to get into you'll need to do some research - there are several good on line sites that can help and a bunch of books.

To do quill or beadwork for that matter, you're going to need some braintan, which is expensive, or a good and less expensive alternative is the German Tan from www.crazycrow.com. If you decide to go the braintan route let me know and I can recommend some folks who do it "right". For quills I recommend to start with the pre-dyed quills from Crazy Crow or Moscow Hide and Fur www.hideandfur.com - you'll still have to separate the quills and clip the barbs, but it gets you started right off - I recommend just doing a bunch of practice pieces using the various stitches - spend a good deal of time on the basic stitches first to get the feel of working with the little buggers........good luck and if I can help just give a shout out to me here........