Sgain-Dubh

I just finished my first sgian-dubh.  A sgian-dubh is the little knife Scotsmen carry in their sock.  It's going to an old friend who is (or at least used to be) a piper.  I made sure I played bagpipe music while making it.

The blade is 1084, the handle is African blackwood I carved into a spiral, and the fittings are nickel silver with my primitive attempt at engraving them.

The spine has a tapering vine pattern carved into it, and the sheath is designed to go in a sock, of course.  The whole knife is only 8" long, split evenly between handle and blade.