Sold: $325

A beautiful little Sgian Dubh with a thistle-patterned turned wood grip with an antique-ivory pommel. The W2 steel single-edged blade is hand-forged by the maker, clay-tempered with decorative filework along the spine. The solid copper guard is hand-filed as well. A pewter clover cap finishes the turned ivory pommel.

The sheath is wood, covered with a dark brown deerskin and a patinaed copper chape.

The blade is 3 1/2" long, 1/8" thick and 1" wide.Overall length of the knife is 7".

From Wikipedia: The sgian-dubh (skiːənˈdu, skee-ən-DOO) is a small, single-edged knife worn as part of traditional Scottish Highland dress along with the kilt. Originally used for eating and preparing fruit, meat, and cutting bread and cheese, as well as serving for other more general day-to-day uses such as cutting material and protection, it is now worn as part of traditional Scottish dress tucked into the top of the kilt hose with only the upper portion of the hilt visible. The sgian-dubh is normally worn on the same side as the dominant hand.

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