This is my second knife, forged from 5160, tempered brown. It's 12" long and is designed as a general purpose survival knife, it'll cut through bamboo and shrubs like a machete and splits small logs like a hatchet. I left the clip edge blunt so it could be used to split really long logs so the clip could be used as a target for a baton. I left all but the edge as a forge finish partly for aesthetics, but mostly because it takes ages to get a good polish by hand! I'll try to get some better pictures soon!

Ooh I like that. Can't really see the handle well in this pic though. Looking forward to seeing some others!

A couple more pics as promised.

Actually to hand finish a blade is not a real lengthy thing at all..I covered it in the knife chat series posted in knife section of the forum..I think it is in 101 or 102.

Thanks, I've been meaning to follow that properly but haven't got round to it, I'll be sure to check it out! I needed to do this in a couple of days for an event, but now it's done I may file out the marks and bring it all to a polish, then put a proper handle on it too!