BOLO TIES
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| Caribou Bolo Item Number: Price: $125 |
This is a fairly large and excellent Bolo tie, This piece features the scrimshaw work of one of my best students, Jason. The scrimshaw is of a Barren ground caribou, and is done on the ’crotch’ section of a shed elk antler. I now use a steel, push button slide mechanism to adjust cord length. The cord on this tie is 4 mm natural Lt. Brown leather cord, total length, including the 4” tips, is 46”. Hang is similar to a standard necktie. The tips are made of shed deer antler tips, and have a small handmade antler bead just above them. | |
| Buffler Skull Bolo Item Number: Price:
$125 |
The Buffler Skull BoloTie is done on a first year shed elk antler burr. The skull, of significance to Native American cultures, and once a very common sight on the prairie, was first scrimshawed on the polished burr, and the surrounding surface was deeply relieved. It was a lot of fun to make. It has a push button steel slide mechanism, to adjust the 4-ply, 4mm, braided Black leather cords. The cord tips are deer antler, accented with a small handmade antler bead, just above. Total length, including tips, approx. 42”, Hang about half that | |
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Ganders in the Cattails Bolo Item
Number: Price: $95 |
This piece is one of my earliest bolo ties still in stock. I think it persists simply because my clientele does not include many folks that love waterfowl as much as I do. It is a scrimshaw of two very watchful Canada geese, heads poked up among the cattails. This tie is just old enough to have one of the older “clip down” cord catches. The cord is 4 mm, 4-ply, braided black leather, and is approx. 42” in total length*, with a hang of half that, about standard necktie length. |
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Whitetail Buck Bolo Item Number: Price: $175 |
This bolo tie is made from a bleached, prairie found, shed Mule deer antler burr. The scrimshaw is of a two and a half year old whitetail buck. The bolo cord slide mechanism is a steel push button type, and adjusts the length of the dyed brown, 4mm, round leather cord. The tips of the cords are of deer antler, but rather unique. One shows the beginnings of an antler fork, and is embellished with a scrimshaw of a deer track. The other is a straight antler tip, both have integral spacers of southwestern Ironwood and silver spacers, and are capped with silver wire coils. Total cord length, including tips is approx. 46”, hang would be about half of that. |
| The Puma Bolo Tie Item Number: Price: $175 |
The Puma bolo tie is done on a prairie find sun-bleached mule deer shed antler burr. I augmented the color of the burr with my own dye technique. The Scrimshaw is of a Mountain Lion. The tie has a steel, push button slide mechanism, which adjusts the fit of the natural Lt. Brown, 4 mm round leather cord. The tips of the cord are deer antler tips, with a very fine Tiger’s Eye Bead divider. Total cord length is Approx. 44”, the hang about half of that. |
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| Whitetail Apple Bolo Item Number: Price: $150 |
This Bolo Tie is done on a small shed elk antler burr. The relieved scrimshaw is one of my favorite themes, and one that always invokes a bit of nostalgia. I was raised in the orchard business, and there was always a whitetail ‘scrape’ under the last tree, in the last row at the back end of our farm. This theme will definitely re-occur in my work, as I touch back to my heritage, on frequent occasion, and not without the occasional tear in my eyes. The slide mechanism is a steel push button type, and adjust the cords for length and fit. The cord is hand –dyed 4mm leather cord, and is multi hued to accent the scrimshaw work. The tips are deer antler with angled laminations of Blood wood and Osage Orange wood. There is a silver hammered band in there as well, and the tips are capped wire silver wire coils. Sweet. | |
| “Spooked” Bolo Tie Item Number: Price: $400 |
This bolo tie is one of six in a series of wild turkey bolos done in 2005. This one is No. 2 of 6. The centerpiece is done on a small shed elk antler burr and features a scrimshaw of the ‘spooked” gobbler. The piece is significantly “relieved”. The artwork is taken from an early piece of Charcoal 2-dimensional artwork I did in 1992. Just below the burr is a hand hammered copper ‘shield, copper flat coils and two acorns carved from very small deer antler burrs. The cord on this tie is “extended” utilizing two, angle laminated beads Of Osage Orange and Padouk woods with flat copper coils above and below. The tips of the cords are deer antler, hand-carved to mimic wild turkey spurs. They are accented with more hand-wrought copper work. The cord is hand-dyed 4mm leather cord, and, including extenders and tips, is about 46” in total length, the hang would be half that. There are 25 individual handmade pieces in this work of art. | |
| “Flying Gobbler” Bolo Tie Item Number: Price: $400 |
No. 1 of 6 in a series of Turkey Bolos done in 2005. Done on a small shed elk antler burr, the scrimshaw is of a bearded mature gobbler lifting to flight. It is also deeply relieved. Beneath the burr are three horizontal hammered silver bands and two tight silver wire coils to which are attached to tiny acorns carved from deer antler. The 4 mm natural leather round cord has extenders of angle laminated Tiger Maple, Osage Orange, and Padouk woods, with flat hammered silver coils above and below. The cord tips are two antler tips carved to mimic a 4 year old Gobbler’s long spurs and have silver trim above and within. The total cord length, including extenders and tips, is approx. 47”, the hang would be half. This bolo tie has 25 individually handmade pieces in its construction. | |
| “Morels” Bolo Tie Item Number: Price: $400 |
“Morels” is No. 6 of 6 in a series of six Wild Turkey bolos made in 2005. The bolo medallion is made from a shed whitetail antler crotch. The lower part has been hand-carved to mimic a one year old gobbler’s spurs with a hand hammered silver band setting it apart from the upper part of the antler, where the scrimshaw is of the head and upper neck of a wild turkey gobbler. The scrimshaw is relieved. The 4 mm round leather cord is hand-dyed two- tone, russet above, green to the tips. There are two matching and rather extensive cord extenders. They are made using two pieces of Orange Padouk wood on either side of a very white piece of polished antler. There is a wrap-around scrimshaw on the white antler, of a flowering vine, into which are grown several different knots. The sections are separated by flat, hammered silver bands. There are flat hammered silver coils above and below. The tips on the cord are made from the brow tines of a very gnarly old whitetail rack. It took very little work to make them look just like the incredibly edible, very prized morel mushrooms. Cord is total 47”, the hang is just half of that. There are 24 individual handmade pieces in this work | |
| “Acorns” Bolo Tie Item Number: Price: $400 |
“Acorns” is the fifth of six in a series of six Wild Turkey bolo ties made in 2005. The medallion is made from a shed whitetail antler crotch, in fact, from the same antler as it’s brother piece Item BT9. The lower part of the medallion has been carved to simulate a one year old Gobbler’s spur, and is separated from the upper section by a hammered silver band. The other section of the medallion has a scrimshaw of the gobbler’s head and upper neck, the beard shows. The 4 mm round leather cord is dyed two-tone, the upper section brown, beneath the extensive extenders, russet. The extenders are made with a piece of Osage Orange wood separating two polished pieces of antler. These antler sections are scrimshawed, all around, with vine floral motif, several knots grown into the vines. There are flat hammered copper coils above and below the extenders. The tips on this bolo are acorns carved from the full bases, including the burr, of smaller shed whitetail antlers. There is another flat hammered copper coil above the acorns. The approx. total length of the cord is 47”, the hang would be half of that. There are at least 23 individually handmade pieces in the construction of “Acorns” |
