ok im back, got to start a project at my gpas house, my first real knife!!!
i based it off of this wooden one i made a while back, so far i only have the handle end of the blank finished up, the rest will be completed the next time im in iowa:

^^^ the proto (not my best grind at all, grandpas sander is a lot thinner and i couldnt adjust fast enough...

this is my first attempt at hand filing the handle, i used wood files of course... wrapped tightly in electric tape, it just sort of worked its way up to my favorite handle material

the jimping

this is the unfinished blank of my first real knife, it looks wavy but i assure you its smooth as... daymon... ill let you come up with a synonym... creepier that way...

im begining to like how the surface looks, i just made random patterns across the whole blank to clean it and remove cooled remnants of the plasma cuts,

this shows how thin the steel is, ill have to do a very gradual flat grind, or else it will be to weak, and i dont know what grade the steel is, other than its galvanized.
on another hand, im curently bidding on this speed bump, please dont out bid me
today my leek clip, body screws, and torsion bar came in, i forgot to list it as the ckt version, so i got an appealing contrast from the clip to body

poorly shown in this pic, im officially back in action... for a week