great looking blade , Tai I like those tribal pieces , As I like anything american Indian , have big collection of stone artifacts. I have been compared to you often by some unnamed Mods , You must be a great dude . Bubba-san :thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:
Your collaborations with Wild Rose are true works of art. I haven't seen any piece that I wouldn't love to have. Maybe someday when the finances pick back up.
Dan - yes they are ferrules but I made them out of copper end caps (less hammering). Perhaps not so oddly emough I started doing this handle at the same time as Tai started his posts on the ferrules - I hadn't seen his posts so it was a matter of "great minds" on the same wave length...........
I guess you could think of these as “Contemporary American Frontier” or "Neo-Tribal“,… or a fusion of the two… I’ve never seen anything exactly like it before, either way.
regarding the blades shape: As Tai noted it's not an exact copy of an origina but many originals were similarly recurve shaped - here's a couple of examples of 19th Century originals: