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Scottish Dirk Book-On Line
I recently scanned the Dirk and Miscellaneous edged weapons portion of the book Scottish Swords and Dirks and posted it in 10 pages on the backside of my website (presently you can't get to it except from the following link so be sure and bookmark it!) Note for those on dialup some of the images are pretty big so be patient - it's worth it.
SCOTTISH SWORDS & DIRKS Hope you all find it of interest. PS I'll eventually get the Swords portion included with it. I'll announce it when I do. __________________ Chuck Burrows Hand Crafted Leather & Frontier Knives dba Wild Rose Trading Co Durango, CO chuck@wrtcleather.com www.wrtcleather.com The beautiful sheaths created for storing the knife elevate the knife one step higher. It celebrates the knife it houses. Last edited by Chuck Burrows; 04-14-2003 at 11:58 AM. |
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Bloomin excellant.....I cant thank you enough for sharing this...I was already in the middle of researching Dirks and the information that this contains just about answers all my questions.
Thanks again. Kevin. |
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You are very welcome Kevin. This one was an easy one. Besides I love good dirks and the originals are much more interesting then the current crop of production ones. (my favorites are those first 3 and the sgian dubh - especially intriguing is how the brass was attached to the spine on #52/53)
BTW during battle the dirk was normally held in the left hand blade down behind the targe (small - 18" or so - shield strapped to the left forearm) with the tip extending beyond the rim. The sword was of course carried in the right hand. __________________ Chuck Burrows Hand Crafted Leather & Frontier Knives dba Wild Rose Trading Co Durango, CO chuck@wrtcleather.com www.wrtcleather.com The beautiful sheaths created for storing the knife elevate the knife one step higher. It celebrates the knife it houses. |
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Scottish Dirks
Just my 2 cents. This is a copy of the dirk shown in fig. 52 and 53 in Jonh Wallace's book Scottish Swords and Dirks . The Brass strip was inlet to fit a milled out area in the blade back. Since this picture was shot I have taken the opportunity to "age" the blade to make it look like it was 300+ years old. Since the dirk and sgian dubh are my baliwick please take a look at this picture and if there are questions that I can answer, either post them here or contact me by email and I'll answer if I can.
The specs: 12 1/2" long by 5/16" thick (with the distal taper it is really not a heavy or unbalanced knife). Through-tang threaded to accept a shop-made nut. Pommel is capped with a brass washer as per the original. Brass strip was brazed in place. This is a DOG of a job, but it worked. Carved Rosewood. Heat-hardened leather sheath that comes up part way on the haunches. Mike __________________ When a people trades freedom for security, it neither gets nor deserves either. |
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Mike. Thats an excellant piece of work.
How did you manage to braze the brass inlet without messing up the temper? Kevin. |
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Braze in the brass first, then do the heat treat. This is not soldered in (at 1275 deg. F), it's brazed. Which is sort of brass welding, for lack of a better analogy. If it were soldered the solder joint would degrade or fail completely. And when s... starts falling off you blade you can get rather annoyed.
Mike __________________ When a people trades freedom for security, it neither gets nor deserves either. |
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nice job, mike. that looks like a lot of work.
thanx __________________ wayne things get better with age ... i'm approaching magnificent |
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Brazed, then heat treated Hmmmmmmmmm?????????
Great job Mike! Nice look and a nice new technique all in one. That's why I love this place __________________ Scott B. Jaqua http://www.hagersonforge.com http://hagerson.livejournal.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The most important right of all, is that of Free Speech. With out that, all your other rights will soon be taken away. So, I may disagree with what you say, but I will defend until death, your right to say it! |
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