Maple Leaf Kilt Pin

[McMurdo]

That is nice, I agree let beauty of the wood show through.

[ehiker]

Staying true to form (having used Poplar for your oak leaf kilt pin), I see you used oak for your maple leaf!



If you're looking for a really inexpensive way to get smaller pieces of exotic woods, check out the ebay seller, "Chitswood". He actually lives just a few blocks away from me (which is great, per no shipping on the wood).

If the purple heart you have would work for the leaf design, then I can send you purple heart or red heart blocks to cut up for your sgian dubh. Free. Well, I'm pretty sure I have purple heart. I know I have a whole UPS shipping box full of red heart blocks and some of them would probably work out quite well for a sgian dubh handle blank.

Just a warning, red heart stinks when you cut it...

I have quite a few smaller pieces of wood laying around that would make good sgian dubh handles, as well. I'd happily send you some machiche to play around with.