Here are a couple of home made blades. The first one is a nessmuk and the other is a bushcraft knife. both made from O1 tool steel. The handle of the nessie is spalted beech and the bushie is ruepela lace wood. Hope you like them.
Anyone familiar with 17-4 stainless? From an old DOD special order, for some aircraft parts, I got the leftovers...! So, I made a knife blade from it, was tough as ironwood too! That's what I'm using for the grips! Seemed appropriate! Had to make a knife, after seeing "croc Dundee's"... It's 18 inches, x 2 inches x 1/4 inch. Too heavy to carry and too big to put on a belt... But it sure is something!
17-4 is a martensitic stainless, I think it is now classed as a Type 630 material. Heat treatable. Stretching memory a long way, I think it age hardens, could be wrong about that part.
Click on the photo to open in a window of it's own, and save it someplace on your computer. Then you can edit your post, delete the big ones and replace with the smaller ones. There is a rather neat and easy little photo editor called "Irfanview" which is way easier to work with than Photoshop or Paintshop (lots less capable, but --). Free download. Once you have your pix loaded into the computer, open them in Irf and play around until you get them oriented and cropped to suit. You can resize them as well to fit on the post page. I use trial and error for that, can never remember what size to make them before posting.
oy sticks,when you post a picture, put something in the pic so's we can tell how big it is.you could use a haggis or anything handy that us yanks could recognize.