Thanks Eric. That's the third knife I've done of that design. It's one I doodled last year and had some scrap metal and thought "I'm gonna make this and see how it turns out".
The first one was a clip point and I messed up the grind lines. So I threw it in the "until I have enough experience to fix it" pile (which is quite large!)
So I started another one and it turned out okay. It actually feels good in the hand and it had a clip point as well.
Fast forward to a week or so ago and I dug out the original and started playing around with it now that my grinding is better. I was actually able to get the grind lines pretty decent, although the knife is really thin now. There was something I didn't quite like about the clip point so I ground it down to a drop point and left it on my bench.
Then the neighbors showed up looking for a knife for their. They liked Knife #2 of this design, but didn't like the scales. I agreed to sell them Knife #1 since it was still without scales and agreed to put spalted maple on them. But after they left, I was cleaning up the blade and just didn't like giving a boy such a thin knife plus the file work on the original was a pattern I was practicing and it wasn't as pretty. I knew what would probably happen if I gave this boy the thin Knife #1. So I made Knife #3, the one you see above!
