Shiiiii....

Well, the knife that I posted the photos of has turned out to be a failure. The heat treat came out alright but I discovered that the bevels weren't at all even, and there wasn't any way to fix it-- I worked on it but it was starting to not look like the knife I was trying to make and I wasn't getting very far with the bevel fixing anyway. So I bent it, chopped a 2x4 with it then shaved, threw it at the ground a few times and called it a day. The pisser is that I'd put about 10 hours in to the reclamation of what was a pretty ugly blade experiment (that includes the guard which was about 80% done).

grrrrr.....