yet another project in progress

[Malice9610]

Here is what I have been slaving away over the grinder and anvil recently..

Old Spring Steel that I heated up and flattened so I could get 2 knives from the length one would make, however it has forced me to determine that I MUST make a flatter tool for that process and that I need to start using water on the anvil during that time to help with scale. 

I did the flat grind completely by hand, given the amount of scale and hammer marks I had to grind out, I had to take the grind all the way to the spine of the blade. This is by far the best freehand grind I have done to date. 

the plan is to gut the core from some black paracord, and do a flat wrap all the way around the handle, then take some olive drab and do a twist type wrap with a Black kydex sheath. 

I have 4 more of these to finish, I am contemplating taking the other one that has really bad hammer marks in it, and doing the same thing by taking the grind all the way to the spine, but on the others I am contemplating doing a grind line and then texturizing them to hide the hammer marks.