Yard Sale Find - 10/28 Knife Sheath Update DONE

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I lucked onto this apparently unused hard doublegun case for chump change @ a yard sale yesterday, in Mooseup CT - it looks to be one of Tony Galazan's (Connecticut Shotgun/CSMC) cases, and will fit a SxS with up to 30" bbls.



I'm doin' the happy dance.... :mrgreen:


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NICE! I enjoy yard sales, flea markets, & auctions. A smart buyer can & will get deals if they pay attention.

DID YA ASK ABOUT THE SHOTGUN? 8)

That's a good find!

My luck - the same as Rodney Dangerfield's - I've never found anything decent at a garage sale........

Explain "chump change" ?

Chump change is a small amount of money that some chump is only able to earn! Or is worth! :lol:

pruger45 said:

Explain "chump change" ?

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$20....... :mrgreen:


And, I didn't bother to ask about the shotgun, for 2 reasons:

1) I couldn't afford the shotgun that case was most likely bought for.......... :roll: .

2) The case looked like it never had a gun, or anything else, placed inside except for the case keys.


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That is a great find!

bayou5252 said:

My luck - the same as Rodney Dangerfield's - I've never found anything decent at a garage sale........

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X2. nice snag! ps

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I also found an unfinished bowie knife for $2 - but it's a work in progress...... :mrgreen:

This blade has a very faint Colonial "anvil" stamp just forward of where the guard will go (bracketed by "Prov" & "USA"), and I've been inside the Providence (RI) Colonial factory many decades ago, in the late 1960's, when I was a business machine serviceman.

This blade isn't lightly etched with the "TUF-STAG..(deer head)....ULTRA HONED" - it's deeply stamped.

I've seen the fake stag (ugh ! ) before on Colonial & Imperial knives - one of the reasons I decided to go with black Micarta ILO real stag for grip scales, because of the possibility that future viewers of the finished knife would pooh-pooh the real stag, thinking it was imitation.

Soooo, as soon as I got back home, I ordered a brass cross-guard & a set of black micarta scales, and intended to polish the blade, then fit/finish the knife guard & scales.

I got the crossguard, black Micatra scales, & a pack of rivets that I ordered from the CRAZY CROW TRADING POST for the yard sale bowie knife blade.

Today, I started the rehab by filing/fitting the crossguard to the tang via enlarging the pre-made slot in the guard so it slides onto the tang.

I also started polishing out the blade, and will permanently affix the guard when the polishing is done.

(below: before a slight polishing)




(below: after a slight polishing)







When the final polish & guard install is done, I'll start on the scales.


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I cut out the knife scales this past weekend, then decided that I wanted to try a 2-piece look, with the front portion of the grip separated from the longer/rear portion by a brass spacer.

After inletting the scales for the tang, I attached them in their rough/as-cut condition first, then hacksawed off the extra/protruding portions of the brass spacer.





Then, I worked the scales down to roughly the shape/feel I wanted, and riveted the scales to the tang with plain brass rivets.






The next steps I tackled are a clean up of the blade, and the final sanding/polishing/etc of the grip & the brass guard, spacer & rivet heads - then try to start on a leather/rawhide parfleche sheath for it, like these two, below:






For the sheath, I first made a paper pattern & cut it out so I would have to cut the leather only once.











Then, I used the paper pattern to cut out the leather & trial-fit the bowie into it.







Next will come finalizing the sheath's outer & belt slot shapes, then lacing/sewing the sheath edges together, before adding some brass tacking & warpaint


(to be continued.....)

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I finally caught a break from re-working my home's kitchen cabinets to accept a larger, bottom-freezer refrig I bought, and started to work on my yard sale blade's sheath.

I had bought a Japanese-style 7" Santoku kitchen knife, that happened to have been supplied with a plastic blade guard.

Since the knife didn't need the guard (I have a knife block), I thought that I could use it as a sheath liner, to prevent the blade from eventually working through the leather sheath.





The blade guard was a tad long for my bowie's 6-1/2" blade, so I reworked both the guard's throat and the overall length.






Here's how it will lay, hidden inside the sheath:

(I have already sewed a beadwork Thunderbird device onto what will be the outer face of the sheath)





My next step(s) should be sewing a single belt loop to the rear/outside of the sheath, then sewing the sheath together before installing a line of brass rivets just outside the bowie's cutting edge, down the sheath from the throat to the bottom.

After that, I plan on testing my artistic ability by painting a Native American design onto the facer of the sheath - I can only hope that I'll be up to it.


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Pete,
Great Post!
Terry

Really nice post!

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A friend stopped by yesterday, while I was working on the sheath, and gave me nice-size hunk of tanned buckskin - soooooo,I decided to make a 2nd sheath from some of it, alongside the sheath I've been working on.


I cut out the buckskin just like I did previously, then laced the edge(s) closed (below, with the 1st sheath and a factory sheath I decorated last year for a Cherokee Bowie I have)




I drew up both sheath's outlines on a piece of paper, then made several copies of each, so I could (color) pencil in a few different designs, to make mockup's, to see how it might turn out.


This is what I came up with for the 1st sheath:




This is what I came up with for the buckskin sheath:




Whaddya think ? Suggestions ? ?


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I got busy & finished one of the sheaths today - the buckskin sheath.

I first drew an outline of the decorative pattern I wanted onto the leather.





I then applied some of the colors, and let it dry overnite.





After that, I decided that an orange/amber color looked better to me than the blue I had planned on.






The last thing I did was to clean up the black lines that separated the colors.






Now, back to finishing the other/original sheath.......... :roll:


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I agree with the color scheme. Nice.

I agree also, those are nice and colorful!

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Well........ Just about done - I finished lacing the 1st (AND last) sheath today, with suede leather lacing.





Here's all 4 of my bowie knives, with their respective sheaths:

(L to R: re-handled Cherokee Bowie w/re-worked sheath, re-handled Cold Steel Trailmaster Bowie w/CS sheath, re-handled Colonial Bowie w/new sheath, and an unknown pig-sticker w/new sheath)




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