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I'm Jason O'Bryan, I'm the president of the Buck Creek Muzzle Loaders
at the Buck Creek Trade Fair
and we've got vendors in from approximately six or seven states
they take and bring their wares in and it's a period of time from the
era of the fur trade--1750 to 1840. Me and another gentleman started that club in 1976
We'd just like to get together and shoot, so we took and we've been shooting ever since. It felt really--doing good we've got approximately
We've got approximately 90 to 95 families, I say families because a lot of the women shoot
but, like I said, we portray a lot and you've got people from buckskinners, we've got people from the long hunter era, and just everything anybody
would want to portray from 1750 to 1840. Like I said, everybody's welcome. We've got hunting pouches here, we've got muzzle loaders for sale
we've got clothing, we've got tinware, we've got pottery--there's something for everybody. Soap up here. We've got an international author right there
John Curry, he writes for the National Muzzle Loading Rifle Association, plus he also on his second book
...hand forged iron ware for re-enactments, people who live in history--re-enactments. Everything here is hand made. I've got a two pound hammer and
a two hundred pound anvil, a coal fired forge, and that's what I use to make all the things you see here. We are dealing in the 1750s to about
1800s, primarily. A lot if the iron work will even go up through the Civil War. I use a lot of the civil war materials--the same type of process--but this stuff
is good also for Civil War re-enactments. I'm even doing some cowboy action type which is more from the 1770s-1780s. I will probably do one of
those events and they are intersted in cookware. I have came to Linton for every event except the very fist one I think. The first year that I came was
the second year of the event and the next year I was here as a visitor, and I've been here ever since. Today's crowd has been very good
a lot of people here, it was very busy all day. They've had a very good turnout. More people are interested and more are buying, and it's
always been a real good show. A lot of great folks--a lot of good friends up here in Indiana. I make the journey every year and enjoy the event.
My name's "Many Knife," thus the many knives. I'm from Louisville, Kentucky and my name's John Dolson in actuality. I make all these knives hand
forged. Bags--I make bags and I do leather work. I've been doing it since probably 1999. I've got Mike with me here. He makes bags, does bead
work and so on. I just enjoy doing this. I'm retired. A couple years back somebody told me here they've got a spot open at the show, so do you
want to come up? So I came up, and they didn't have a table, but somebody else didn't come up for their table so they let me have it.
I've probably been here six or seven years and this is my favorite show. This is the best, most proper period show that I believe there is in this country.
Now I've done well-had people that owed me money from other shows, they paid me and I've been selling quite well--$200-250 range
sell a handful of knives, bags, trinkets, this and that. Well I forge all of these out of steel that I get out of saw blades--the old circular saw blades out
of saw mills--old lumber blades. I heat them up and hand forge them, grind them off, dye the handles--dark sells, I don't know why. I use
anything from saw blades to horse rasps. This one here is a Civil War type. A long hunter, like Daniel Boone, most of your long hunters use these.
It's just and old butcher knife. One theY probably made on the frontier itself. Their knife wore out--get some steele, and they got a new blade.
Neck Knives--the Indians mostly wore these here. The frontiersmen didn't, but the Indians didn't have pockets so they needed some way of carrying
their knives, and that's what a neck knife's for. Also, when their big knife might have broken, they might have needed a folder. They had a friction
folder. All it is is friction that holds that thing together. I use deer antlers, stain the handles with a special mix that I've got and that's about it.