Making a small dagger #1

This is just a procedure, how I'm making a very small dagger, which is quite simple to make..if you're making it from a soft material.

I'm using material called OSIKRO 4, discovered and made in Železarna Ravne (Metal Ravne), Slovenia, Europe. This material is very hard(after hardening and quenching), is used for industral cutting tools(mills, drills and lathe knives). Because of it's oxidation, I will have to make sure(after it's done) to keep it from rust; by bluing it.

Here's just a cutout of material(100x30millimeters), it's CNC surface grinded(from both sides) down to 3.5 millimeters, brushed from all sides, so it's symmetrical.

Here's just a block of wallnut's root wood, which need to be cut down for plates for this dagger.

The sheet will be made from black leather, probably shaped as arrow.

Procedure:

Drawing the design

Drawing it onto material

Cutting it out of material

Grinding the material to get the exact shape

Surface grinding

Marking the holes

Drilling the holes

Making the brass pipe

Grinding down the cutting edge(4)

Hardening

Quenching

Sanding(to get off scrap)

Drawing the plates to wood

Shaping the wooden plates

Bluing

Attaching plates to knife(bolting)

Sanding wooden plates down

Varnishing wooden plates