My first sgain dubh

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This is my first attempt at making a sgain dubh. I found the handle at a shop in the Bayshore shopping center in Miami when I was on a business trip last October. It is a hippo tusk and the shop was called "Art by God". Last year my wife gave me the blade, from Atlanta Cutlery. It took that long for me to find a handle. I still have to polish it to remove some of the tool marks (I also managed to sctatch the blade.). I still have to make a sheath for it.

The discoloration on the tusk is natural, I did not do anything to it except mount the blade in it.



BTW, it is on a swatch of Polaris Tartan and that will be one of the next two kilts I purchase.