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Western W49 Bowie

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Here is a vintage Western W49 bowie that was in pretty rough shape to start with. I reprofiled the blade and did a hand rubbed finish on it, the guard was broken so I made a hand forged iron replacement, handles were replaced with figured Osage Orange with 14 nickel silver pins. I also made a new sheath of natural oil finished 9-10 oz veg tan that is all all hand stitched.
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Absolutely amazing Kaleb!! ::not_worthy::
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Kaleb, that is pretty sweet looking! great work as usual.
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That's pretty awesome Kaleb! I like it a lot.
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Your restoration is beautiful, a really fine piece of work. Well done.
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Kaleb, that's so sweet!

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Very nice job.
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So, the question arises as to what you are going to do with it... :lol:
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Really nice rehab Kaleb!
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schmoozer wrote:So, the question arises as to what you are going to do with it... :lol:
Thanks for the comments everyone.

This one stays, at least for the forseeable future, I never got too excited about these in their stock configuration so I have sold the 4 or 6 I have owned, however this one appeals to me a lot more. ::tu::
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