Just received my new sgian dubh made by Mr. Rab Gordon of Scotland Also got the blade portion for a sgian brew to be handled with a deer antler The blades of both are made of swedish damascus steel The handle of the sgian dubh is made of bog oak.
Hi Hoke tah Saru mo ki kara ochiru
That is sweet. I sourced material from Rab that my father is using to make me a custom sgian dubh. They are great to deal with. Pops is carving the handle now ..... can't wait for the results!
Lovely looking bit of kit you have obtained there. Look forward to seeing pics of the sgian brew when finished. Rab Gordan certainly does fine work. Cheers
Shoot straight you bastards. Don't make a mess of it. Harry (Breaker) Harbord Morant - Bushveldt Carbineers
Wicked! Can't wait to see the finished sgian brew.
I changed my signature. The old one was too ridiculous.
The Rab Gordon sgian has a timeless quality about it, as if it had been made hundreds of years ago. Quite jealous!
Beautiul piece of work. Love the patterning on the dubh blade.
Martin. AKA - The Scouter in a Kilt. Proud, but homesick, son of Skye. Member of the Clan MacLeod Society (Scotland)
That's a classic! I wonder how the blade is affixed to the handle... is that round bit of metal on the butt a screw?
- Justitia et fortitudo invincibilia sunt - An t'arm breac dearg
The material I recieved from Rab for my father to use creating mine did not have a screw. He is going to have to drill a hole in the bog oak handle and the tang of the blade will be pushed inside. Challenge will be to have a narrow hole so the tension with the tang will hold the blade in place. He will probably use some sort of adheseive as well just as a precation. We are going with a different hilt on our project and that will need to be hand fitted in place as well so that it stays. There is a reason that Rab charges what he does ... it is difficult work with the carving of the handle and then fitting everything for assembly.
Beautiful Damascus blade. Wear it proudly. What I found works well for those tang blades is two small holes drilled parallel with the flat of the handle on the drill press and then hogging out between them with a needle file or thin jigsaw blade. Good luck.
" Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly." - Mae West -
The pin at the end of the sgian dubh is sterling silver not a screw cap. The tang is very much like the sgian brew. I have yet to decide the shape and style of the handle for the sgian brew. So far I think that I will drill a centre hole same size as the width of the tang and use a slimmed down jig saw blade to slightly widen the hole to the shape of the tang, to produce a tight fit. Then I will add epoxy to hopefully fill and secure the extra space in the handle. I may add a series of turquoise beads along the exposed side of the handle, no yet sure.
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