I've got the tools, I've been practicing every chance I get with a variety of alloys and different sizes of stock. I've made several simple items, fire pokers, letter openers, RR spike knives, etc. But this is a more complicated task than any of the others that I've just made as I went. What I'm sayin is, I haven't started with a pattern and tried to copy it, I've just went where the metal has taken me. I'm not close to any of the guilds listed on this website, so it's mostly just reading and then trial and error via the hammer for me.
Zombie Tool is exactly what I thought when I first saw this!!!! But it's cool to know the history of the tool too.