Thanks guys. Yes, you cant do much when your sick. Trust me I tried.
The man I made them for requested the buffalo nickles, I like them too. The spurs, hangers, and buttons are just mild steel. The rowels are O1 tool steel, quenched in oil and tempered to a dark straw color for a good "ring". I turned the bottle-bobs from keystock.
I took these to JP yesterday evening. He said well lets try these out. He had some homebrew beer iced down. We took the caps off with the spurs and had a nice glass of beer. It was really good!! Put a smile on my face to see it all come together. Then he gave me something a little extra, a picture. See about a two years ago JP, another guy, and myself went out to Colorado to ride our horses in the mountains for a week. We got to ride over the great divide. Well, we rode up on some guys taking pictures one day just by pure luck. One of the guys is a professional photographer, he has photos in magazines and such. Well he took our picture over a lake called heart lake. So JP had that picture blown up and professionaly framed with a nice letter tucked in a little pouch on the back of the frame. What a gift!! It made all that work worthwhile.
I am working on a pair of spurs for my wife now. She barrel races so they will be a bit more decorated. Barrel racers like that bling and brightness. I will post them as soon as I get them done. I spent a few hours yesterday cutting her name and some stars out of Ok gold.
Tom
ps. Hope I didn't bore you with the story