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4 Real piece.

I kept it simple, as this was my first effort. The bone was sold as dogs play toy of all things. It was already bleached and stabilized and for the most part hollowed out. (Hey, cattle bone is cattle bone!)

I still had to do a lot of filing to get the tang to make it through the bone. Afterwards, the tang was glued in place and bolt was passed through the end of the tang to anchor it in place. Then the bone was filled with Marine Epoxy, hiding both the tang and the anchoring boly.
To cap it off, a fake Spanish coin I bought in Florida was used as a pommel cap.

The reason I wanted a larger handle was help balance the blade. By using the large hunk of bone, I was able to move the balance point to a bout 1 inch in front of the guard. Had i used a shorter handle with less weight the balance point would've been two or three inches up from the guard.

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Comment by Tobias Gibson on February 11, 2013 at 20:59: Good idea Sue!

Comment by Sue OldsWidow on February 11, 2013 at 19:33: looks like it could double for a document Stamp!

Comment by Tobias Gibson on February 11, 2013 at 18:58: Thanks Guys. Here is my review of the blade at Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Knife-Blanks-Overall-Scimitar-Blade/dp/B003WK...

Comment by Jan Carter on February 11, 2013 at 17:30: That sure makes a fine"topping off" peice for that knife. I love that you used the dog bone! Genius way to make that wall hanging

Comment by Tobias Gibson on February 11, 2013 at 15:57: The coin is fake 4 real (reale) piece. An 8 reale piece is a piece of eight. Reals were actually made of silver. And unlike the pirate movies "pieces of eight" were called a "Spanish Dollar" in the American colonies The people in the English speaking colonies would actually call this a 1/2 dollar or "4 bits" See my page on piracy in the Caribbean http://pirates.hegewisch.net/pirates.html.

Comment by Ron Cooper on February 11, 2013 at 15:24: Toby, what was that? It looks like a copy of a Spanish "pieces of eight." Am I correct? I like it whatever it is!