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#44259 - 07/06/08 04:17 PM Re: Non catalog tri-athlete [Re: Gamble]
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Hi Steve, unless the scales are paper thin, the standard sheath will not work. Its just too tight with anything extra.
Incidentally here is a link to an Ivory one I did up myself. Enjoy!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...E:IT&ih=016




You can get a sheath for it with the ivory on it that fits. The Captain showed me one that Jean Beal had for sale with a sheath that Greg Gutcher had made that would hold it.......of course being the intellectual giant that I am I passed on it & came back later & it was gone.

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#44260 - 07/06/08 04:18 PM Re: Non catalog tri-athlete [Re: Gamble]
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Very nice work Lucky. Very NIce.

I've been doing them for a while for my family although I did sell one a few months back to a guy on the Forum who then promptly resold it on eBay for a profit. Unfortunately I had not etched my initials and serial number on it so you know that sooner or later it is going to be offered on eBay or somewhere else as an "unusual" Randall knife. I will NEVER do that again.

All of the other triathletes or #10's I put ivory scales on for friends of family have been etched except that one.

RICK BOWLES did the puma scrimshaw on this one which I frequently carry as a utility knife, Greg gutcher did a way cool snake skin pouch sheath for it.


This one I made for Pete Hamilton before I spent a week with him and his lovely wife Betty at their home in Havana after he retired from the Randall Shop. Many of us were introduced to Randall Made Knives through his warm outgoing willingness to spend time with just about anyone who walked into the shop and wanted to talk Randalls.

Pete told me that a lot of people who looked at all of the knives in the cases (those were the good old days) used to ask if sheaths came with them. He told me that most of time he answered "no you have to carry them in your pocket." He was a great kidder, some would say "wise ass." Either way, he is sorely missed.


This is the first one I ever did. The scrimshaw of the Snowy Owl was also done by Rick Bowles.


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Scrimshaw Copyright© 2008 Rick Bowles All Rights Reserved

Regards, Doug
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#44261 - 07/06/08 07:50 PM Re: Non catalog tri-athlete [Re: Holzinger258]
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Never realized that there were so many nice looking ivory handled Tri-Aths, guys! I like the mosaic pins, too.
-Steve

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#44262 - 07/06/08 10:01 PM Re: Non catalog tri-athlete [Re: Holzinger258]
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I trust that Pete retired to Hay-vana Florida (near Tallahassee), not Havana, Cuba.

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#44263 - 07/07/08 01:16 AM Re: Non catalog tri-athlete [Re: 7033grip]
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Hi Guys,
Been out of the loop for a couple of days, playin up in the mountains.
Thanks for all the info and pics of the tri-athletes, they look real nice with the scales too.
Hope you had a great 4th too, Dubie.
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#44264 - 07/07/08 04:29 AM Re: Non catalog tri-athlete [Re: silverknife]
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Beautiful knives Doug. Those look great for EDC.
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#44265 - 07/07/08 06:26 AM Re: Non catalog tri-athlete [Re: silverknife]
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Feantastic job Doug !
I agree 100% about Pete:sometime I wasn't able to catch up his irony...but he was a nice Guy...



Here's mine little tri-athlete with ivory scales...hope you did this one...and it fit in its original sheath...
Got it from Greg...
Best
Guido
PS: sorry...no fancy pic...just personal catalogue....


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#44266 - 07/07/08 07:18 AM Re: Non catalog tri-athlete [Re: Guido_Bitossi]
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Thanks for the compliments. From this crowd of that's high praise indeed.

Guido, I'm betting the one you have is Gene Beal's work. He's sold a bunch of them and uses thin pieces of ivory. I prefer using thicker scales and then sculpting them to fit the hand. Also, the only one I ever did that didn't have my initials and a serial number on it and that didn't go to a friend or family member as a gift was in fossil walrus. One dark side and one light side, just the way it was found in the ground. Like I said they guy who bought it sold it few weeks later for a profit but I think he made a mistake. Haven't seen any one do a fossil walrus triathlete and they were pretty nice scales. Oh well, to each his own.

Dubie-Florida geography is not my forte but I know that when I visited Pete and Betty at their retirement home it was in a little town called Havana a few miles off Route 10 and not very far North of Tallahassee. I'm sure it was Havana not HaYvana.

Regards, Doug
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#44267 - 07/07/08 07:40 AM Re: Non catalog tri-athlete [Re: silverknife]
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If you live in Florida, then you pronounce it Hay'vana. I figured that's the town you meant.

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#44268 - 07/07/08 08:53 AM Re: Non catalog tri-athlete [Re: 7033grip]
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Here are some more! I love threads like this that show some RMK's outside of what would be expected...altered though they are.

Ivory, Sterling silver pins, Gutcher Python Sheath


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