Planning an everyday sgian dubh

**Meggers** · 29th September 11, 07:50 PM

good heavens you made that all in one day? Thats awesome.

**Mac-Attack** · 29th September 11, 08:14 PM

Have to agree with Meghan on this one, in one night, good job. Looks sharp (overall not just the blade ;-) )

**Mickey** · 29th September 11, 08:25 PM

Nice!!!!

**JCheshire** · 29th September 11, 08:29 PM

Gosh, that's really some nice work!

**BuchananBiker** · 30th September 11, 07:37 AM

Ok, step by step.

1) right off the bat, I figured why reinvent the wheel. So I stripped off the rubber from the handle of my bootknife.

2) with the tang exposed, I measured the antler via calibrated eyeball and cut it to size.

3) I ground down the tang to make it straight.
4) Sorry, no photo of drilling out the antler, but here's the knife roughly fitted.

5) next I dug up a chunk of brass and rough shaped it.

6) I striped the rubber off the hilt and machined up the brass. Here's the new hilt, cold pressed onto the blade.

7) I filled the antler with binary epoxy and dust from the antler. I slid in the tang of the blade and let it set.

8) a little fine sanding later and here it is.

It was fun, the next time itll come out more refined.

**Phifeman** · 30th September 11, 08:36 AM

That looks way nicer that an "everyday" sgian dubh. Nice and quick work. I have an antler handled sgian dubh that I inherited from my father. I especially like it for that reason and also because it is flattened on one side and it really hugs the leg -stays put in the kilt hose (/boot?). Keep up the good work!