A bit of work to make Dirk!

[Panache]

You chose an interesting piece of wood for the handle... lots of character. I've never worked with it before.... hard? soft? dense?.... looks expensive.

And sometimes simplicity is the best option.

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Blu,

Zebrawood is a hardwood but not terribly dense. Much easier to work with than say Oak ,which would have gone better with the nickel acorns, but I really like the zebrawood*. I believe it is very expensive. My sister and her husband had the trim in their bedroom made of this exotic wood. I saved the pieces from the kindling pile from their fireplace (the horror, the horror ).

Cheers





*Frankly though I love the results, I don't really like working with Oak. Cherry is a favorite of mine, which is why when I was making my "sgian don'ts" so many of them were cherry.

[Alan H]

I think it looks GREAT, and the haggis is yours to skewer at our Burns Supper. Best start practicing the poem now!

[ozmeath]

Well done Panache! Just great to see the work. Very tidy, nice job on the bolster particularly. I'm sorry I'd missed your skian dubh thread but well done on that also.
Happy to see an aussie native timber get a little action too. It's a very signature wood. Be sure to keep us posted on the scabbard process.
Erin.

[TimC]

Nice job. I look forward to seing it next Friday!

-Tim

[Panache]

Followup

Now there are things I really like to do or make; woodworking, gardening, gin and tonics, etc. Leatherworking is not something I enjoy. I have made a few things for my son Sinbad because (1) I really love him and (2) buying kid's accessories is really costly. So I have put off making a sheath for this knife.
I will be at our Northern California Burns Night reciting Burns "Address to a Haggis" (hopefully correctly). I needed to make a sheath for my dirk to draw it out at the right moment.

I whipped up this sheath without a single stitch. The whole thing is held together by a super glue, one leather screw, and three belt loops.
It's made from a very cheap leather belt from Target, the leather belt loop from a thrift store belt (that supplied the acorn decorations), and a small amount of black vinyl. It may not be the best sheath ever made, but for less than an hour's work I'm happy with it.



By the by, the knife fits all the way into the sheath, I just didn't put it in all the way when the F-H.C.A.G. snapped the photo.

Thus the project is finished!

Cheers