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.
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.
Last edited by aonghas; 19th September 13 at 09:57 AM.
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