Very nice surprise

[Way2slow]

Several months ago a friend of my wife passed away.  The other day, her husband told her aunt to have my wife stop by in the next time we were in town.  We went by there this morning after I had some stitches taken out of my arm.  

This is what he wanted to give her and sent her home with.  He said he was about to go into and assisted living facility, she had always admired these and wanted her to have them  

 

[Way2slow]

Oh, and he also gave me this.  I saw it sitting on a table and commented, that's a nice knife.  He said it's yours.

[TnRiver46]

Cool collection !!

[Way north bass guy]

Good lord that’s a lot of cool artifacts! 
Now you’re gonna have to build a nice display case for them ?. 

[Way2slow]

Yep, actually there was one more bigger than these.  

I guess as for the display case/cases, I guess it's time I try dragging out some of this framing equipment I have and see if it still works.  If I'm willing to mix moldings and not try to go with the same kind on all of them, I've probably got enough molding.  No way I would have enough of all the same kind though, That's probably 60 - 80 feet or so, a healthy chunk of change if I have to buy it.  I'll have to see if Larson Juhl will still sell to me whole sale if I got that much. Then it's if I just want to mount each piece on a sued mat or cut recesses for each one, that will be a ton of work. 

I have some other pieces I have been putting off framing but I guess it's time to do those also.

I will make some more authentic looking handles for some of the pieces. 

The wife is also thinking she might want to do a display in an antique bow front cabinet.  Gonna be her call on how it gets displayed.  

I guess I can make one of my very authentic looking Native American style flutes and place in with them if she goes with the bow front.

[lo n slo]

wow ? 

[slonezp]

Very nice knife.

[BrianMDTX]

Very nice collection and what a beautiful gesture. 

[Way2slow]

You have to kinda feel for the guy.  He's in pretty bad shape health wise and has no family of really close friends.  He was an avid outdoorsman is whole life and has just loads of stuff that's probably going to get tossed.  He has one room he calls his critter room where he has some nice mounts in a display case to show them in a natural setting.  The case was built too large to get out of the room.  He was suggesting I take them, several red foxes, bobcats, a coyote and a few others.  I had to turn him down, first I'm not into mounting anything, and two, I really wouldn't have a place to put them.  

He has sold bunch of guns at give away prices, reloading equipment and supplies and just loads of other stuff, simply because he has nothing he can do with it.  

He still has loads of nice stuff, artifacts and just soooo much he's got to get rid of.  He want's to sell his house also, so almost everything he has, has to go.  

I'm going over next week to pick up a custom made long bow and a couple of other things I'm buying from him.  He tried to give me the bow, and I told him I just could feel good about myself if I took it, and there were a couple other things I was interested in but only if he would take some money for them.  

[Way2slow]

Well, here's her initial display.  I've got to make a her a very nice flute to go behind the eagle and the long bow will go above the top frames.  The frames will be remade but that's down the road.