this is one of my favorites, and a great use for an old porcelain sink. toilets work too, just don't use the inside bits...
i've gradually worked on this for about a year i think. every once in a while i just pick it back up and do or add something to it.
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and my sgain dubh:
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i did a poor job on the lettering here. i made one straight and one 1/5 circle punch, and was being assaulted by wasps while working on it. add to that that the antler was very old and pretty brittle and you can probably understand. the words are from an english translation of the Declaration of Arbroath. for my sgain dubve, it is the Scotish equivalent of 'from my cold, dead hands'. i will not be asked to remove this knife for any reason. if i am going somewhere a knife i not appropriate, i would have taken it off already.
the engraving, done with a fine burin, was filled with a mixture of wood ash and saliva. this same mixture was used to fill the lettering.
i certainly didn't make the sheath. it was given to me by a friend with a knife that has since been lost.
the blade is stainless from art pewter of Scotland.
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