Sgian Dubh - Out of this World

[GlassMan]

Rex, I admire your taste, have you looked at Lyttle?http://www.lyttleknives.com/gsgducem.htm
or
http://www.lyttleknives.com/gsgoutsh.htm
Lots of nice stuff out there, I never pulled the trigger on one of these, actually commissioned a sgian that was never produced, still may go after something eventually. I did find a very elegant silver sgian made in '29 that satisfies me.

David

WOW I want that so badly!!!!!

[Splash_4]

That first one is a stunner!

[Howard Clark]

Brian Lyttle's work is truly outstanding. He's a great deal of fun to be around as well.

[David Thornton]

Never met him, we did exchange emails a couple of times. I am a long time fan. If he has something sitting about that he needs me to model, let me know

David

[McFarkus]

Those are truly sgian porn. But, my favorite sgian was made by our own Piper394. He carved the traditional African black wood handle; it has sterling settings and an amethyst handle. But the cool twist that made me cave in when buying it was that he forged the damascus blade from a used Harley-Davidson chain.

See this thread for pictures
http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/n...x.html?t=40874

[fortcollinsjerry]

Contemporary Smith's and knife makers do some very high end artfull creations using layered steel. SOme years ago I was heavilly invested in 18th Century American colonial reenactment where a Damascas blade was Verbotten! During that period in the COlonies making layered steel was a lost art.

I recently discovered that during the Crusades thousands of Damascas swords were brought back to England. It's would seem very likly to me that not a few of these blades became dirks and sghin dubs.

[Howard Clark]

Here's the most recent one I made for myself. Very thin, very simple, very sharp.

[sathor]

As cool as a star blade would be, I would worry about the cancer. No, not the person carrying it catching it, but on the blade. It has been a long time, and not sure whihc book it was in, but exposed meteorites can start to degrade, even some major collections have been damaged before the 'factors' were nailed down...

Fighting the rust I could live with, but not protecting meteorite metal...

But before I pulled the trigger on one just like it from Matt's gift shop or a similar one from Slanj, I thought I'd look across the internet to consider other possibilities. Well, I thought I found one:

This one caught my eye on the Google image search I used. It looks hand-crafted, and not in a style that turns up so often. Something about the blade and the fittings and the carving really appealed to me.

So I looked it up.



Oh! How nice!




OH!

Price: $885

<Sigh>

From Daniel Fronefield, whose website was last updated in 2002.

"Hello, Matt?"

Regards,
Rex.

[Howard Clark]

Sources ? I would be very interested in such information, if you could provide a reference ?

My only objection to a meteorite blade is that it makes a poor blade (in comparison to what is available today), and is not "hard" by our modern standards. Hard to top it for cool factor though.

[sathor]

Sources ? I would be very interested in such information, if you could provide a reference ?

My only objection to a meteorite blade is that it makes a poor blade (in comparison to what is available today), and is not "hard" by our modern standards. Hard to top it for cool factor though.

http://www.amazon.com/Rocks-Space-Me...dp/0878423737/

I can't find my copy, but I swear I had just seen it a few days ago, when redoing the home library. It was the textbook for one of my classes towards my Geog. degree.