almost done- sgian dubh

[koyote]

This is the third of the completed (nearly) of my modern sgain dubh style. This one is paper (I first typed linen) micarta with black liners and fully cold blued.

 

[grease-man]

Christof, I like this! :thumbup:

Just curious, how did you do the surface prep on the blade before the cold blue? Mirror polish or hand rub? Thanks. -Matt-

 

[koyote]

that one is belts to around 600 grit and then hand rubbed from 400 to 800. Then a lot of cleaning. Lots of cleaning. I'm really wishing I could remember the name of the cold bluing that likes oil

I've never been able to easily clean a blade that I'd buffed to the point where blue would like it. It's doable, but takes an awful lot of time.

 

[grease-man]

Thanks for the info Cristof...wanted to try it on a future project, figured I better learn a little more about surface prep first! :thumbup: -Matt-

 

[koyote]

alcohol helps a lot

 

[Keith Montgomery]

Very, very nice. The handle material looks more like paper Micarta than linen, but it might be that I'm just not able to make out the fiber pattern.

 

[koyote]

awright. I am a dork. it is paper, I know it's paper, and I need to edit that from linen to paper. Thanks for catching that, Keith!

 

[mnyshrpknvs]

Very nice design. I like the white/blue handle combo alot!

 

[kevin adams]

very clean, very slick, i like it

 

[blgoode]

Really like that handle shape and side contour. Its different

 

[dfarmerknives]

very interesting. I like it!!!!

 

[koyote]

Thanks all! I've done a few of these now and I think it's close to becoming my "signature" self defense/utility knife

 

[koyote]

and ready to go to the (hopefully) happy owner:

 

[Samurai Stu]

Very neat. The contrast is appealing

 

[Snake Dr.]

This one turned out "Beautiful" Koyote, I know Hawkman Like's his New Sgian Dubh, Keep up the Great Work !

 

[koyote]

He's got it now, and it did come out nice. I'm really happy with that one. The gambler model I did is almost a 180 contrast.

 

[bear1889]

I am extremely curious would this be a right handed knife or left handed.

I am leftie, and when I ordered my spanish boar hunting dirk, I forgot to tell that to you and received a right handed sheath. My fault. The knife is awesome, huge and sharp....great knife. I mean both are...

 

[koyote]

That one is right handed. I am also a leftie and make left handed knives and sheaths, no problem. For this type of knife, I have no problem using is left handed, but for a leftie I'd put the canted butt on the other side.


Your sheath could probably be reversed (depending on which specific one it is) without more than a few minutes of restitching the snap and moving the belt hanger.