damascus Sgian Dubh

[gryffynklm]

I asked a friend to make me a Sgian Dubh Scottish knife to go with my uniform for the pipe band I'm in. I just picked it up a few days ago. Nice pattern and wicked sharp. The stone on the end is amber. Now I have to make sheath. I'm quite pleased.


http://i490.photobucket.com/albums/rr262/Gryffynklm/P1020174-1.jpg

[pocomoonskyeyes]

That is really sweet!!

[Sarge47]

So yere oof Scootish heritege are ye? An ya kin play the pipes as well? So can we see a pic of ya in yere wee Scootish dress? :innocent: :sneaky2: :cool2:

[RangerXanatos]

Absolutely beautiful!

[pocomoonskyeyes]

Karl, Have you ever been to my Town? They hold the "Highland Games" here every year. Glasgow Kentucky, at the Barren River State Park Resort.
http://www.glasgowhighlandgames.com/

[cowgirlup]

That is very cool!
Nice shape and love the amber on the end!!!

[gryffynklm]

Well Poco!! I Have two. This is a twist. I'm a woodwind player (major in college), learning tenor drum but playing bass drum. Never carried a bass in parade before this one.

WV highlanders proudly waring the MacLeod of Lewis dress tartans.

http://i490.photobucket.com/albums/rr262/Gryffynklm/Beverly%20Heritage%20Days%202008/h11.jpg

http://i490.photobucket.com/albums/rr262/Gryffynklm/Beverly%20Heritage%20Days%202008/h41.jpg

[pocomoonskyeyes]

Do you think you will be this years HG? If so I will make sure to look you up!!

[gryffynklm]

No, I have heard a lot about the famed games. Father, Son and Friends are a great bunch to hang around the camp fire with. I've wanted to go but timing never works out.

[panch0]

Congrats on the awesome blade. Your friend is very talented.

[gryffynklm]

I have three of his blades. A damascus skinner with a laminated canvas handle. and a stag horn handled utility 5.5" knife. Here is his link.

http://caldwellmetalart.com/new_page_5.htm

[Beo]

Gryf,
We have alot more in common I see, here are a few pics of me. I play the bagpipes for the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office Pipes & Drums, and for the Cincinnati Emerald Society Police & Fire Pipes & Drums, also I bass drum for both bands when our drummer is missing in action. I actually designed the bass drum head for the Emerald Band and drew the celtic knot shamrock, neckbone graphics did our drumheads.

[Rick]

Good heavens! Lot's of talent in such a short thread.

1st. You should be very proud of that knife. It's a beauty! I like the amber end, too.
2nd Beo - You've been hiding some talent if you did the design. That's pretty impressive my friend!!!

[Camp10]

Nice blade! Does he forge his own damascus?

[Beo]

Yeah I can draw a bit.
Gryf, that is an awesome Sgian Dubh, love and it is functional which is rare in a pipe band Sgian Dubh as most are just for traditional show.

[crashdive123]

Great looking knife. I was going to ask the same question as Camp10 did about forging his own Damascus Steel.

[gryffynklm]

Yes, he makes damascus, and teaches as well. He showed me a knife he just finished using cable to make the damascus sweet swirly pointy stabby buahahaha.

The WV highlanders were lined up for a parade in Washington for the 4th and one of the members asked an officer if it was OK to have the blades. The officer looked at the blade and commented thats a fine blade, at least someone is armed and handed it back. Its not like we could blend in the with crowd. We wear the Loud MacLeod tartan.

[panch0]

Is the amber clear or have ancient debris still?

[gryffynklm]

It has exactly that debris. I can't identify what it is but it doesn't look like insect.

http://i490.photobucket.com/albums/rr262/Gryffynklm/P1020177.jpg

[panch0]

Cool I like that about amber.

[canid]

that's beautiful.

mine's stainless, and while it's a great blade which i use for everything, as god intended, yours is a thing of beauty. i love patterns welded blades.

[tsitenha]

Excellent Sgian Dubh, just had one made for my son's wedding this summer.

[lucznik]

I asked a friend to make me a Sgian Dubh Scottish knife to go with my uniform for the pipe band I'm in. I just picked it up a few days ago. Nice pattern and wicked sharp. The stone on the end is amber. Now I have to make sheath. I'm quite pleased.


http://i490.photobucket.com/albums/rr262/Gryffynklm/P1020174-1.jpg

That's beautiful. Does your friend make them comercially? Could you share his contact info?

[Pict]

The closest I ever got to a Sgian Dubh was the Gerber Guardian I called all through my teen an college years. Being a McIntyre it seemed like the natural thing to do. I have yet to wear a kilt though, that's a group activity IMO. One man in a kilt, people wonder, twenty men in kilts, they cross the street. Mac

[rebel]

Nice knife!

[Batch]

Seems a lot of us of the gewd blood on these boards. My mother is a Davie and my father's mother was a Cameron. Most of my cousins that come to visit are from my grandmother's clan McCann or the Wilson clan that my aunt married into.

My mother was born in raised in Glasgow.

[Pict]

I asked my dad once what we were. He said,

"You're half Scotch, the rest is water."

True it is.

Mac

[Rick]

My mom was a McChesney. My dad was a smooth talker...apparently.

[gryffynklm]

I have three of his blades. A damascus skinner with a laminated canvas handle. and a stag horn handled utility 5.5" knife. Here is his link.

http://caldwellmetalart.com/new_page_5.htm

Hi lucznik,

Above is Dan's web page and has contact info. I don't know what you mean by make them commercially. Like buying a lot of six???????

Dan makes custom knives and other ornamental iron work. This isn't his full time gig so its not a here is my catalogue pick what you want arrangement. I put down a deposit and waited patiently for my knife. His work is excellent and the knives are meant to be used. A knife like that should go for around $250 to $300 ebony handle amber stone and costume silver work.