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    Thanks guys. Long ways to go and may ways to go wrong.

    I fianlly was able to find the term I was looking for - sgian achlais.

    That's the main one that's got me worried. It is a patterned steel (damasteel, a little complicated to explain) -



    Mine will look like the one on the left. Right is hollow ground.

    Haven't done to many daggers so it is always a slow walk to get the grinds even. VERY easy to over grind and impossible to fix.

    Jim

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    Here is the next, got two of the blades sanded and started on the filework of one of the sgians -



    Much happier with this filework.



    Jim

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    Quote Originally Posted by Drac View Post
    Here is the next, got two of the blades sanded and started on the filework of one of the sgians -



    Much happier with this filework.



    Jim
    Spectacular! Is the tang on the Sgian tapered or is it an optical effect?

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