started to make a knife 18 months ago and forgot about it
at 15.5" x 2" x 0.25 of 01 tool steel with a 9.5" blade it is more of a short sword
it's purpose is brush clearing and zombie apocalypse, note the glass breaker zombie smasher at the back
rough shaping, wish i took more pics
after shaping it needed hardening and tempering, this is hard to do on such a big blade so i sent it off to mark hill aka hillbill http://www.markhillknives.com/ , mark also tidied it up . a truely nice guy and will have something made by him directly
pre heat treatment
after heat treatment descaled and cleaned
starting to look really good, already got handle scales picked out
the sheath is going to be the hard bit