Beautiful work chickenman. What are the handles? Interested in your sheath too I'm not happy with my stalking knife sheath. I need to make another and might give the molding idea a go. Does it hold it in if upside down?
Hope you don't mind if I show mine too?
I'll upload some photos of my mains stalking knife later - it's a simple Ray Mears ish scandi grind full tang 4mm O1 steel, buffalo horn handle. Holds a razor edge as long as my my bought swedish one. It's a little on the large side though. It certainly isn't my last I think!
Then this I made for a very close friend - he wanted more traditional. It's 3mm O1 steel, buffalo horn handle. The Aluminium pomel I cut out of a range rover cylinder head!
(he did his ignitials and date...)
Lastly a kitchen knife for my brother's 21st. 2mm O1 steel, Beech handle. Brass rod as rivets. Never use glue.
I'll second Leprevo - I've got most of my stuff from there (forget ebay for good quality leather unless you get lucky. Learnt that one...).
I made my own because I was always after the perfect knife, and never found one for sale. So I read up and decided to give it a go! Made a forge out of a car wheel and tumble dryer blower, used oil from my last service and a gas torch for tempering. I made a jig for the belt sander to 23* but I'm still not totally happy with the angle grinding bit. I should get a linisher I guess, what do they run at?