A Steampunk Tribute to the
John Deere TractorCompany: 
the Dear John Bowie Knife
Bowie died in 1836 and John Deere made tractors in 1837.
I want to show you a hand made bowie knife
that symbolizes the personalized attention with files and
hand drills that went into making each of those old
mechanical works of art called the John Deere
Tractor.  The early ones that went "chickit, boom, boom,
chickit, chickit, boom, boom, chickit, chickit, boom,
boom.  The steampunk John Deere Tractor.

This steampunk bowie knife is a piece of folk
art that honors a tractor every Pennsylvania
Dutch farmer can hear in his memory as he
can hear that first love song he heard on the
radio of the borrowed family car while parked
at night next to a sheltered fence row kissing his
first love for the first time.  Chickit, boom, boom,
chickit, chickit, boom, boom, chickit, chickit,
boom, boom.

I want to show you a hand made bowie knife
that symbolizes a machinist's personalized
attention and skill that went into the making
of each of those old mechanical works of art
called the John Deere Tractor.  I've kept this
gem for years.  It's a symbol of a tractor I first
heard over sixty years ago.







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