New knife

**IsaacW** · 15th July 15, 08:08 AM

I finished a new knife. I wanted something that was a usable knife, small enough to use as a modern sgian dubh. My only sgian dubh currently is a mediocre one I got in Scotland that will not keep a good edge. This one is a bit bigger than the typical sgian dubh... Something more like a historical gralloch or sgian achlais that hopefully can get double duty with reenacting stuff. I pushed the limits of my abilities, but this should be functional, if not sort of decent to look at. I added a cattle horn belt clip on the back for times when I might wear it needing such.

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**GrainReaper** · 15th July 15, 09:19 AM

Looking good! I am enjoying making sgians lately, I need to figure out the carving bits on the handle.

What metal did you use for the blade?

**IsaacW** · 15th July 15, 11:25 AM

Originally Posted by GrainReaper

Looking good! I am enjoying making sgians lately, I need to figure out the carving bits on the handle.

What metal did you use for the blade?

This was a forged blade from an old file. A friend made it and it was a knife that my dad was using. He broke the handle a few years ago and I took the blade, reshaped the blade and tang, and added the filework on the spine. I then reused it for this sgian.

IW

**plaid preacher** · 15th July 15, 01:09 PM

Originally Posted by IsaacW

This was a forged blade from an old file. A friend made it and it was a knife that my dad was using. He broke the handle a few years ago and I took the blade, reshaped the blade and tang, and added the filework on the spine. I then reused it for this sgian.

IW

Isaac, can you tell us about the handle please? It looks like soap stone.

**IsaacW** · 15th July 15, 01:40 PM

The handle is whitetail deer antler. It was a very "polished" horn from a large buck (and therefore fairly white). I carved the basket weave and the cap and bolster are poured pewter.

**Mike S** · 15th July 15, 03:36 PM

That is a real beauty!

**GrainReaper** · 15th July 15, 04:39 PM

Originally Posted by IsaacW

The handle is whitetail deer antler. It was a very "polished" horn from a large buck (and therefore fairly white). I carved the basket weave and the cap and bolster are poured pewter.

Did you use a dremel for that? It had to stink something awful, worst part of cutting and working antler is the smell.

**IsaacW** · 15th July 15, 06:22 PM

dremel, pocket knife, files, and chisels... all depending. Stink... yes, but I am used to that smell from working antler, horn, bone and growing up on a farm that used an iron to dehorn cattle.