I Love this one too, But sorry about it being a bit blood thrusty.

I'll heal, provided I survive the finishing process.

You know that there is more to come. *chuckles*

wicked looking thing O.o

I was aiming for a kind of harvesting knife, but it decided it didn't want to be a vegetarian. I'm inclined to agree about the 'wicked' part.

mhm

Its beautiful how long have you been working on it?

Thanks! I did the shaping about four days ago I guess, and have been grinding, filing and sanding on and off for the past day and a half. To make this a quality piece I'll need to get all the scratches out, so it'll be a few more hours before I can finely align the blade and heat treat.

That is fantastic I really like your work. It is a very pleasant change as far as style and art that is normally found here :3

Well, regardless of its loodlust, it's a beautiful blade, with a beautiul name, excellent work! ^w^

Thank you!

*Bloodlust

see, how do you forge these things? I keep hearing you need all sorts of overly fancy and expensive equipment...

Then I keep hearing about fire codes stopping me from doing anything like that. -.-

The most unavoidably important tool you need is a bit of basic training. You can try without it, but it's frustrating and wasteful. For equipment, the least you need is a forge, an anvil and an appropriate hammer. You can build a forge for around $100 with freely available instructions. You'll find plans for both coal and propane types. Any reasonably flat and heavy chunk of steel will work for an anvil to begin with; make sure it's got at least one sharp edge, though, for cutting on. The typical blacksmith's hammer is a medium sized cross peen hammer. The surface needs to be 'dressed,' or slightly rounded and lightly polished, or the hammer will move steel slowly and leave bad marks behind. As for fire code, well... you know your local regulations better than I do. Good luck!

It's awesome.

Hah, knife with a personality.

Omg Rust!! Is this going to be for sale... It's so pretty.
Llyn.

Thanks, Llyn! That's the plan, but I'm going to need to do some serious pricing research; this type of knife is almost universally done in a rustic style, and I have never seen one like this before.

Awesome... Keep me updated. If I have the cash I want it. =D
Llyn.

Will do! I'll be posting the finished product once I get that far.

This is amazing knife. Im so glad i found your work....

for some reason if there is something i CAN cut myself on i WILL cut myself with it

I'm honoured. Handling sharp stuff requires a lot of attention, and some pieces are definitely worse than others that way (like this one).

Yeah, that's a neat looking blade.

is that designed as a bone cutting curve?

Nope, it's designed as a harvesting curve, like a sickle, but the knife decided it didn't want to be a vegetarian.

x3 nice

I just can't favourite this gorgeous knife because this pic has your blood in it somehow it's wrong to favourite that. Love you, check your email.

I'll post a proper image when the knife is finished, which may be a little while yet; I need to redo the heat treating, polish everything, and finish the sheath.

Love you too.