I finished up with the new knife. First I want to say this is the first time I have gotten cut while building. I ALWAYS have tape on the blade. I always work the polishing wheel on the bottom ALWAYS.
Well I wanted to polish a spot after I took off the tape. The wheel grabbed the bolster and thew the knife into the bench. But it bounced back and got me pretty good. I looked it over and knew I needed stitches. So I called up my son Jacob and told him to get over. He gave me a couple hillbilly super star stitches and I was back to finishing the Blue Reaper. Here are some pictures of the whole mess. The knife looks awesome and the 3/16 mosaic pins were my own creation. I think they look like Dog Paws.

Ahhhh...mountain man stitches. Excellent.

Nice knife too.

Nice knife Ron and you even broke it in before you were finished! Just glad you didn't drop it on the floor an put a nick in it.

I am afraid that it has the taste of the sweet flesh of Humans.

LOL!!...

Don't worry Ron... once it get's the taste of deer or antelope blood,
it'll forget all about the taste of your ol' carcass! Tell Jake I said congrats on the stitches!

BPS

I had a dog bite me once and it licked it's own rear end to get the taste out of it's mouth.

It is kind of handy having an EMT in the family.

I think you got the manufacturing sequence out of order. I believe you're supposed to quench the blade in blood when hammering it out, not feed it blood after the knife is completed.

I will try that next time

I like knives. I have a few including a couple handmade knives that I picked up at gun shows. I've PMd Ron a couple times because I was thinking about getting into making my own. I even got a belt/disc sander.
Well it turns out that I loaded a couple hundred .270 rounds for my cousin using his brass and bullets and my powder and primers. He was so grateful he bought me a beautiful Buck Special. http://www.buckknives.com/product/11...ife/0119FAM01/
He told me he didn't like seeing me bear hunting with my ML and carrying a folding knife. Yeah right, like I'm going to try and fight off a bear. Anyway - he'd never catch me because he'd be slipping on my deposits as I was running away!

I made a video for helping guys make knives. That is a good looking knife but building your own is special. here is the link to the video. I wish I would have aimed it more at my hands on some of it but you will get the idea.

https://www.youtube.com/user/idahoron?feature=mhee