FYI,
Since the knife was pretty unsharpened, I took it to a place that sharpens table saw blades & such ... cost me $5.00 to have both the normally sharpened edge made sharp and the other side sharpened ... now I can keep it up now that it has an edge on it .... but I think it was well worth the sharpening cost ....
The Belduque I had made I more or less measure so that the blade and scabbard would fit in the space between the knee and ankle, since that was where they were often worn ... look at the right foreleg in the rider in the pic ...