Anyone else wishing for a custom sgian?

**Joe Gondek** · 27th May 07, 07:53 PM

take a look at this site
http://www.sheffieldknives.co.uk/aca...sh_Knives.html
They don't list them but if you ask They will sell just the sgian blade
they have them in high carbon as well as stainless
I've dealt with them twice and they are good people to deal with
I got 10 high carbon sgian blades last year from them for $10.00 apiece

this what they look like after I put handles on them

**Joe Gondek** · 27th May 07, 07:57 PM

one more

**turpin** · 27th May 07, 09:28 PM

Joe, those are really nice. Is that last one the one you showed me in Park City? I seem to remember the sheath.

**David Thornton** · 28th May 07, 06:58 AM

Originally Posted by Rab Gordon

No problem at all to use my images, etc. within this forum.

If anyone comes across a maker of blade blanks that you think would be particularly good then could you let me know.

Rab

British Blades forum? I like those damascus blanks Tacol put out last week. Might need to send him dimensions. Might also be others there willing to play.

David

**Joe Gondek** · 28th May 07, 08:01 AM

turpin Joe, those are really nice. Is that last one the one you showed me in Park City? I seem to remember the sheath.

your memory serves you well,that is the one I showed you.

**Rab Gordon** · 29th May 07, 09:25 AM

Here's a photo of a couple of relatively low cost but reasonable quality Sgian Dubh blade types that I use.

Top; Sheffield made stainless steel
Middle: Mumbai Damascus steel
Bottom; Swedish laminated steel (I reshaped a sporting blade blank)

I'm always on the lookout for a source of reasonably priced high end blade blanks so presently when the above blades are not suitable I make my own blades (stock removal) out of various knife grade steels as well as titanium and silver, but this is a very time consuming process.

Has anyone had thoughts about a handle design ?

Rab

Raptor · 30th May 07, 11:46 AM

There are forged carbon steel sheffield blanks in a new Aussie catalogue I got today, going for $18AU each. I'm going to buy a couple anyway, so will post quality when I see them in the flesh, if you're interested. They do look OK in the pics though

**Rab Gordon** · 30th May 07, 01:11 PM

The Sheffield knife company are off on holiday, I'll ask them about their carbon steel blades as soon as they're back.

Rab

**JRB** · 30th May 07, 03:28 PM

I can't say I'm all that impressed with the tiny tangs on the top two blades in that picture. The bottom blade has a relatively beefy tang with good rounded shoulders, though. I know that a sgian dubh will probably not be put under a lot of stress even if it's used for general day to day cutting chores but I'd still want mine to have something more substantial than a rat tail tang. Just my $0.02

**David Thornton** · 30th May 07, 07:03 PM

Probably should let Rab or one of the makers answer, but I took a scandi to Africa and let my skinner use it for 10 days and it held up admirably. Best of my memory, the tang looked about the same.

David