Skin and Bones - - and Metal

[Ranald]

Yup - The Sgian Dubh blades from Atlanta Cutlery ..here.. are all threaded tang. For Antlers it's really easy!!!

Cut up the antler into handle sized pieces. Hack saw works. Rough sand to the shape that fits your hand. Drill a hole the size of the tang. Use a dremel tool to further shape and refine the hole. Mix some epoxy. Glop it into the hole and on the tang. Push it into the antler piece. Let cure.

Then further shape and sand, and finally buff.

Oh well that's the secret out then ! everyone can make a sgian now.
Great sgians, you've made it look easy.

[Alaskan Kilted Guy]

Wow, very nice work! Thanks for sharing!!

[irishrob]

Jay:

My Dad carried a knife with a leather handle like your in Europe during WW2 and now I know how to "fix" it...too big for a sgain but just right for my memories. Thanks

Rob

[James MacMillan]

I will always perfer the sgian ochles, all the same these are some fine looking blades.

Aye - But living in Southern California, the normal wear for 75% of the time is a short sleeved shirt, and lends little place for the carry of the more many sized blade!

[Yaish]

Wasn't there some consensus that the Sgian Dubh and Sgian Ochles was indeed one and the same blade? That while worn concealed it was often in the armpit, but when entering a friendly abode it was stuck in the sock as a mark of friendship and respect?

Perhaps that was just a story.

[Alan H]

NICE... I have an old camping knife with a stacked leather handle, and over the years it's taken on an individual tone, different from any other knife.
I like that.

I bet this knife will do the same thing.

[Spc. Scott]

Very nice. Thanks for posting the pics.

[James MacMillan]

Wasn't there some consensus that the Sgian Dubh and Sgian Ochles was indeed one and the same blade? That while worn concealed it was often in the armpit, but when entering a friendly abode it was stuck in the sock as a mark of friendship and respect?

Perhaps that was just a story.

It's my understanding, and of course, I could be wrong, that the major difference between the Sgian Ochles and the Sgian Dubh is size. As I understand it the Sgian Ochles was and is a more offensive large knife and the Sgian Dubh was and is a small defensive knife. But both were routinely worn hidden.

The story that I like about why it is in the hose top is to show your host where you have placed it, out in the open. Saying to him in essense - "Here, my hidden knife is, for all to see - you have nothing to fear from me!" (This story has no real basis for belief, I just like it.)

Similar tales are told as to how and why the salute came about and also the standard handshake…. As a manner of showing a friend and/or ally that you held no weapon in your hand.