Vine Knife

This is a mass-market dagger that I bought from a distributor. It originally had a hideous American flag and bald eagle motif painted on the handle and sheath. I sanded the handle and sheath clean of their factory finish and used a dremel tool to carve a vine pattern into both sides of the handle. I had wanted to do something similar to the sheath, but I couldn't think of a suitable design. This knife sat in a drawer, unfinished, for over ten years, before I decided I just needed to be rid of it. So, I painted the handle and sheath white and fixed a silver pentagram applique to the sheath. My hopes for the sheath had been much higher, but I was suffering some sort of creative block and could not think of what I wanted to do with it, so I decided to just be done with it. Perfect is the enemy of finished.