Oh man this brings back memories.
I tried my hand at building a knife once.
It started out going pretty good, too.
http://i.imgur.com/wmO5w.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/XYgXj.jpg
I wasn't sure how I was going to make a handle for it, though.
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Oh man this brings back memories.
I tried my hand at building a knife once.
It started out going pretty good, too.
http://i.imgur.com/wmO5w.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/XYgXj.jpg
I wasn't sure how I was going to make a handle for it, though.
So, I started making etchings on the blade.
http://i.imgur.com/MCMmc.jpg
Poor quality old pic is all I've got, but that is supposed to be a dragon blowing fire from about midway up to the point.
Hell, everything was working out much better than I ever thought!
A buddy helped me a little on the research and we learned that swords years ago had gold filled into the grooves.
I didn't have gold, but I was interested in trying it with brass. We had lots of brass at our shop.
Turned out, trying to get brass into the cracks was a very bad idea.
http://i.imgur.com/GYH25.jpg
It never cleaned up. The heating had destroyed/pitted the edge, and it looked ...like crap!
That was the end of that project.