Hi Bob, I really like  your game photo's. I sure like to squirrel hunt myself.I hope things are OK for you Bob, I heard you recently got out of the hospital. Hang in there and keep workin that wood.

Hi Bob, My Puma skinner was made in 1970 1st quarter.

Thanks Rob.  Soon as I can get someone to take it to the Post Office it will be on the way.  Tomorrow or the next day for sure.  I'm glad to have found iKnife and glad to have ou as a friend as well.  Lee

Get them mooses (meeses??) when you are all healed up Robert!

Robert, it has been a while since I have been on I Knife and I see you are having some major surgery. My prayers will be for you snd look forward to your recovery. May God be with you & your family during this time.

Robert,

Let the girls know I want to know your OK just as soon as they can

hello rob,  got out of hospital this afternoon and headed straight for the lap top.  The best man for your knife is Eugene Blankenship who lives in Milan ,  Tn.   .  He had a stroke a way back and could have retired.  He's the best in the country.  He did all Boker returns alot from Remington.  His phone # is 731-723-7575.  He did my work and it was the best.

Hope this helps !  "GO REMINGTON"  (  WESTERN TOO!)  lou

Good eye Robert!  Didn't think anyone would be able to see that.

Thanks Robert. I generally like wood scales, but there is something about the texture of this giraffe bone that is unusually pleasant...

very nice work on the canes rob.....

rob, here are a few pix of some stix that i have been working on lately...

as you can see they are all in various stages of work. the cane is done and it came from a crepe myrtle tree. the handle fits perfectly in my hand and feels really natural. ergonomically correct i guess you'd say. the one on the far left is also done, and i won't even comment on what it looks like -- it just turned out that way. the one i left the bark on, left of the cane, was a much taller staff at first. i recently chopped it down to feel more like a shillelagh. the one on the far right is a real nice section of eucalyptus and is about 6 feet long. it will be my next project and hopefully a nice staff. the one to the right of the cane is red oak and already has tung oil on it. it feels perfect just as it is. it is quite heavy! the one second from the left is one that i have been working on a lot lately even though it might not look like it. i'm not sure what kind of wood it is because i found it laying nowhere near any trees and was actually from the same large broken branch as the one just left of it. the one i call the phallus erectus stick. (i hope that description falls within our G rating policy?). anyway, it is headed for a life as a shillelagh, also.

here are some different angles of these...

so, that's what i have on hand right now. usually as soon as i finish one of my stix i give it to one of my friends. my enjoyment comes from skinning, carving and sanding the wood. it's therapeutic for me in the evening to plop myself down in front of the boob tube and work on my wood.

i enjoy just sitting and sanding. here is a small piece of very old and extremely hard apricot wood that i was playing with last night. i have sanded it down to 2000 grit and i doubt that it will show in a picture, but it has a mirror-like finish on it. i call items like that worry wood, much like worry stones. they are soothing just to roll around in your hand.

i hope all this gives you some idea of my very simple projects. nothin' fancy. just keeping my hands busy.

cheers!

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if i get a chance i'll take some stix pix later today.

thanks, robert! i'm honored to be your friend.

Robert,

Call Chris and have her get the tracking number for the trace.

Christine Tucker – Inside Sales
chris@greateasterncutlery.net
Phone: 814-827-3411 Fax: 814-827-3529

Robert, the handles on the Muskrat is a smooth blue bone on which I assume Case laser etched the desigh and filled with black. Max McGruder posted a pix of a pattern handled this way. I did some research and found that Case released these in the fall of 2011 and one of the patterns was a muskrat. I was able to find one on ebay & add it to my muskrat collection. I have not been able to find out how many of each pattern was handled this way. The design is unique & I hope that a very limited number were produced.

EXCELLENT CHOICE

Thanks Robert, Hope you had a great Christmas Too!

Hey Robert, sorry about being late in saying this, but happy Thanksgiving.

It's good to be friends, especially when we have so much in common. It's great to share with another hunter, the stories are great.

God Bless buddy