New cable damascus sgian dubh in progress

**Jake_S** · 18th March 08, 08:16 AM

Originally Posted by Standard

Very interesting pattern on the blank on the link you gave us. Can't wait to see the final product. The skill of the folks here on Xmarks never ceases to amaze me.

I second that

**Kilted in Maine** · 20th March 08, 04:40 PM

Do you have your own shop?

**jmercier** · 20th March 08, 09:53 PM

Yes, my garage is my workshop, where I've got multiple forges (3 propane 1 coal), grinders, presses, a treadle hammer, and other tools for forging and hot metal work. Anyone who's ever going to be in the area is more than welcome to message me and come visit and I'll let you at some hot metal in my workshop.

maybe this weekend I'll actually take photos and update my webpage so that the shop page actually talks about my shop, with images etc. My webpage needs serious work lol.

**jmercier** · 23rd March 08, 09:20 PM

I did not get to work on the sgian dubh this weekend because of traveling for the holiday, but I did manage to update my web page and actually finish the page for my shop.

http://www.tharkis.com/shop.html

Has a pretty comprehensive virtual tour of my shop and workspace. Enjoy in the mean time while I find more time to work on this sgian dubh !

**Don Patrick** · 23rd March 08, 09:55 PM

Originally Posted by jmercier

here is a picture of the last cable sgian dubh blade I made

http://www.tharkis.com/images/knives/3/sgiandubh11.jpg

Really sweet blade.

**JerseyLawyer** · 24th March 08, 12:16 PM

That looks great! Is it as big as it looks?

**jmercier** · 25th March 08, 10:32 AM

It's not that big, the blade is only 3 inches long + the tang. The graph paper that the last picture was taken on is 1/4" squares and there's a ruler in the picture at the top to give some perspective.