Ya know, I'm feeling a little infierior about using helle blades after looking at all the works of art here, but I like to make them none-the-less. Here are my two latest ones.
The first one is just an antler handle with bighorn sheep/black phenolic spacers. Brass finger guard. It's the odell blade.
The next one is osage and gaboon ebony with a mosaic stripe of osage/ebony accented by bloodwood. Brass finger guard and lanyard hole. It's the varg blade.
Maybe they'll inspire someone else with limited steel working experience like myself. Mike