Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: YosemiteBen on May 31, 2012, 09:21:59 pm
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A while back I was lloking for someone to make my son a tomahawk. I sent a PM to PennHawk and he is one hard guy to get a hold of. When I did not hear from Penn, I ordered one from a local guy and Penn finally got back to me. I paid for the local and worked a trade with Penn. He sent me my sons hawk and included a knife sheath that he had made for his personal knife. My part of the trade was to do the beadwork for the sheath. He sent a picture of the knife and a color scheme and one design and a bear claw he wanted included in the design. So i jumped in and worked on it at work in the museum. Took me longer than I thought - about 30 hours, i do not really know for sure as I did not keep track of the actual time I worked on it. I finally got the piece finished but would like to seal it as some of the beads concealing the edging are done lazy stitch style. I thought I might spray it with some varnish or something - any ideas. Penn will be using this sheath a lot. It was a good trade and I hope Penn likes the finished result, the tomahawk is beautiful. The end of the story is, my son now has two hawks. He is very happy with both of them.
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very nice beadwork looks great(lots of patience :)), and that hawk looks to cool he did a good job. do you have pics of the other one ? was it handmade also? you can never have to many tomahawks. i saw one made from a railroad spike on here a while back and have wanted one like it ever since.
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the sheath look's real nice ben, look's like he made the hawk from a farriers rasp, Bub
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Very nice things!
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Hey Ben the sheath looks great . Glad your son liked the hawk.
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Yes Sir,
Love the Bead Work Mr. Ben...
I have done a bit of beading myself from time to time and it is Very time consuming but downright rewarding when done right.
As to sealing the sheath did a bit of looking around on the net and found this piece.
Some of the info is a bit off topic but I think the Liquid Future Floor Wax trick might work for this piece.
http://www.beadingdaily.com/blogs/daily/archive/2008/09/10/how-to-keep-the-finish-on-metallic-and-dyed-beads.aspx
Makes me want to pull out my bead box...
Maybe when I finish my Round To Its... :)
-gus
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Awesome Bead Work Ben!! dp
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Oh I like that sheath.. And the hawk as well. Great work!!
Cipriano