Hey guys, here are some pics of my first knife made from a section of an old leaf spring from my moms bakkie. It still has to be tempered and heat treated and have a handle put on but Ill do all that next weekend hopefully. Tell me what you think?

This is the orrigional piece of steel I used, it was cut from a section of leaf spring.

The rough shaping at the forge.

The final shaping and cleaning. All that needs to be done now is to temper and heat treat the blade, then Im going to leather wrap the handle.

My grandfather trying out my chainmaille coif I am working on.

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