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50th Birthday Blade

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Allen7:
A friend of mine was having his 50th birthday, and I wanted to give him an Obsidian blade.   I wasn't sure if I could get anything long enough out of the smaller obsidian nodules that I had left.   I experimented with some nodules, seeing if I could retain as much length as posiible and still get a useable blade.   In a couple evenings, after work, I roughed out these 5 blades, between 4 - 6 inches.   I did have 3 failures, that just didn't work out.   I picked one of the better ones, put final touches on it, and hafted it to a small mule deer shed antler.  I used the same pine pitch, sinew, and hide glue that I use on my arrows.  Seemed to work out pretty good.   Here a couple photos.

Allen   

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DBernier:
Hey Allen, I just had my 69th birthday.  :o  Where is mine.  ??? Just kidding. Cool looking "stuff".  8)

Dick

Pappy:
Very nice.
   Pappy

Hillbilly:
Good looking knife, you should have a happy friend.

leapingbare:
good stuff.

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