Sgian Dubh - Out of this World

**The Barry** · 12th April 09, 11:32 PM

I really like the first meteorite sgian dubh, that thing is good looking!

**Colonel MacNeal** · 14th April 09, 09:57 AM

Those truly are Blades of Glory.

**Splash_4** · 14th April 09, 10:54 AM

That first one is a stunner!

**Howard Clark** · 14th April 09, 11:09 AM

Brian Lyttle's work is truly outstanding. He's a great deal of fun to be around as well.

**David Thornton** · 14th April 09, 01:24 PM

Never met him, we did exchange emails a couple of times. I am a long time fan. If he has something sitting about that he needs me to model, let me know

David

**McFarkus** · 14th April 09, 01:32 PM

Those are truly sgian porn. But, my favorite sgian was made by our own Piper394. He carved the traditional African black wood handle; it has sterling settings and an amethyst handle. But the cool twist that made me cave in when buying it was that he forged the damascus blade from a used Harley-Davidson chain.

See this thread for pictures
http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/n...x.html?t=40874

**Howard Clark** · 16th April 09, 04:44 AM

Here's the most recent one I made for myself. Very thin, very simple, very sharp.

**sathor** · 16th April 09, 05:25 AM

As cool as a star blade would be, I would worry about the cancer. No, not the person carrying it catching it, but on the blade. It has been a long time, and not sure whihc book it was in, but exposed meteorites can start to degrade, even some major collections have been damaged before the 'factors' were nailed down...

Fighting the rust I could live with, but not protecting meteorite metal...

Originally Posted by Rex_Tremende

But before I pulled the trigger on one just like it from Matt's gift shop or a similar one from Slanj, I thought I'd look across the internet to consider other possibilities. Well, I thought I found one:

This one caught my eye on the Google image search I used. It looks hand-crafted, and not in a style that turns up so often. Something about the blade and the fittings and the carving really appealed to me.

So I looked it up.

Oh! How nice!

OH!

Price: $885

<Sigh>

From Daniel Fronefield, whose website was last updated in 2002.

"Hello, Matt?"

Regards,
Rex.

**Howard Clark** · 16th April 09, 09:27 PM

Sources ? I would be very interested in such information, if you could provide a reference ?

My only objection to a meteorite blade is that it makes a poor blade (in comparison to what is available today), and is not "hard" by our modern standards. Hard to top it for cool factor though.

**sathor** · 17th April 09, 03:08 AM

Originally Posted by Howard Clark

Sources ? I would be very interested in such information, if you could provide a reference ?

My only objection to a meteorite blade is that it makes a poor blade (in comparison to what is available today), and is not "hard" by our modern standards. Hard to top it for cool factor though.

http://www.amazon.com/Rocks-Space-Me...dp/0878423737/

I can't find my copy, but I swear I had just seen it a few days ago, when redoing the home library. It was the textbook for one of my classes towards my Geog. degree.