Randy,
Thank you for your kind words. Trad Gang has been very important for me for a long time. My forging/blacksmithing started here some 20 years ago. Dough Campbell taught me through PM's! He is such a great teacher always positive and encouraging. I would hammer something out, send him a picture, and no matter what it looked like he would complement it. Then rather than saying that looks like crap (which it did) and give up...he would say next try to fix one thing. Not only did he teach me how to forge but also how to teach. Trad Gang seems to have a lot of good teachers!
This knife is just rough forged. I'll add finished product in a day or so...tippit