Sgian Dubh, Scottish and Irish boot knife project.

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I've been working on this dude for a couple of days, and the handle carvings all night. The blade is a spoon handle I hardened, about 4 and 1/4 inches, and the handle is a piece of oak I had laying around the garage about 4 and 1/2 inches with a mild steel spacer from some kind of window lock attachment I hacksawed and filed to shape. It already had a hole for a screw attachment for fastening to a window frame. No power tools were used to make this. Files and stone for the blade, and files to carve the handle, and an old hand drill that was my Grandpa's to drill into the oak. Then some epoxy glue and the fibers from a cigarette butt to hold it together and give it something to bite on to. I wanted to see if I could make a boot knife without power tools, and out of odd ball stuff laying around the house. Surprisingly after heated with a torch and quenched in oil then tempered the little thing is pretty tough.