*Functional* Stag-Handled Sgian?

[Dale Seago]

I really like the elegantly simple look of this stag daywear sgian from Harp & Dragon:




And Harp & Dragon is the only distributor I've seen that advertises the blades as being sharpened. The problem with this and other "production" versions out there is that despite the good intentions of the distributors, the makers of the blades appear to have no concept of a sgian dubh as being anything other than a symbolic representation of a knife, rather than it actually being a knife.

So you see mostly stainless blades. To sharpen most stainless cutlery steels properly you need a diamond hone to get the edge "toothy" enough for use. . .only to THEN discover that whoever made the blade had no concept of proper heat treatment, so it STILL won't hold an edge.

Or you go for a high-carbon damascus blade -- which turns out was only made into a blade for the sake of the pretty patterns, and is ALSO not properly heat-treated as a functional blade.

So my question to the rabble is: Who's a good candidate for a commission for a stag-handled sgian with a non-stainless blade that I can actually use as a knife?