Sikim Scabbard - finally finished

[Battara]

Greetings Folks!

Below is the scabbard for my sikim. I finally finished it with paduk wood and silver bands. There is carving at the throat.

I want to thank Charles and Maurice for their help in researching and advice regarding this project.

I am also posting this per request.


Enjoy :D

[KuKulzA28]

Bravo! Great work as usual! :)

[ThePepperSkull]

that padauk is a dead ringer for Narra, too. Bravo! I like.

[Battara]

that padauk is a dead ringer for Narra, too. Bravo! I like.
Oh yeah. Padauk is in the same family as narra, infact the inner core of narra is identical to the padauk tree.

Thank you both. :D

[Maurice]

Congrats with this great result!

Even the carvings on the scabbard mouth are there....
Also the silver bands are made the original old way!

Kind Regards,
Maurice

[inveterate]

Brilliant work, thanks for sharing. Rod

[Spunjer]

hi jose,
how come you don't use banati? can't they be ordered as well? or is sikin scabbard normally made out of narra?

[Mytribalworld]

Hi Jose,

nice work, you didn't made it quite easy for yourself by using padoek.
Normally for sikimscabbards they use a very soft almost white kind of wood.

Padoek is African.

about the shape , if it was my piece I should file out the curves somewhat to make the overall look more Aceh. (see pic)

Arjan

[Battara]

Thanks folks!

I think banati is very hard to get over here. Many sikim I have seen seem to be made of narra and so I use padauk. Yes it is very hard, but not as hard as ebony or kamagong! (stuff is like rock! :eek: ).