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Thanks for the kind words guys. I'm happy you "get" the knife and why I had it done.

My Bill Feeney scrimshaw knife returned yesterday. I'm completely happy with the results. I mirror-polished the bolsters and blade and took some new pics.

I'm hoping to have a custom black alligator sheath made for it. I'm going all-in on this one.

Bill's strong connection to Schrade back-in-the-day is the authenticity cherry-on-top. He told me that Uncle Henry Baer was very interested in scrimshaw and truly was the real deal. Larger than life but down-to-earth too. Bill used to visit with him and demonstrate his scrimshaw technique at Henry's request. They would chat in his office while Bill worked on a piece.

My Mom would have turned 90 this past Sunday so I was already thinking of her some. She had been an elementary school-teacher and I think our intricate Cutty Sark model was one way she tricked us into thinking learning was fun. One of my very first memories is of her holding me close to the model on the mantle while telling me all about it. I must have been four or five and couldn't have weighed much. I liked the model and her face. The message went over my head at that point.

Knife also commemorates my Mom's grandmother, my "Great-Gran". She lived to be 98 years old and was of coal-miner stock born and raised in East Wemyss on the seafaring Scottish coast. George Moodie was her grandfather so it was not very far removed for her. She also came to Canada when her daughter (my Mom's mom) emigrated. As such I am lucky enough to remember her from the 1970s as well. It was her that had passed down the Captain Moodie family connection. "Ach, me wee bairn!" She said that every time I arrived for a visit and I recall a very loving smile. She was the total Scotch stereotype accent-wise and was one step away from being as unintelligible as Brad Pitt in "Snatch".

Thank you for the family details. Those memories of this great knife provide their own sheath which will always be carried within you.

Quick Steel wrote: ↑Sat Apr 25, 2020 5:09 pm Thank you for the family details. Those memories of this great knife provide their own sheath which will always be carried within you.

Thanks for letting me wax sentimental. We all have 32 great-great-great-grandfathers so people tend to lose most of those connections. My Great-Gran was the bridge that made my George Moodie connection relevant and personal. One degree of separation. She knew and loved Captain Moodie (and me). As a child, I knew and loved her. I won't ever be selling this knife! It's a keeper.

Wanted to add a few I have

The colorful scrimshaw is very appealing.

a couple more

While I have some scrim, I haven't seen the Indian themed knives. Like them a lot.

Not really a Scrimshaw collector but got these two last week - looks like a blank and Bass - think I will keep them a while