I recently finished a knife for my brother.  I made it for his birthday.  It is a Helle blade; the model is Harding, a Scandinavian blade with a flat grind.  The handle is made from white oak from a wagon wheel spoke made in the early 1900s.  Apparently the spokes were sitting in a barn for almost 100 years unused, and well dried as there are no cracks.  I bought the Helle blade and wood from ragweedforge.com.  I also used nickel plate and red vulcanized fiber for spacing.

I documented pretty much the entire process as best as I could with photos.  The only parts missing was a majority of the sanding and shaping because it was too much of a pain to stop and take off masks and eyewear just to snap a photo.  The same goes for taking pics while stitching the leather sheath.  I just wanted to get through that without stopping and skipped taking pics.  Overall, the knife ended up being about 9 1/2 inches long.

I am currently making a leather belt loop for this knife's sheath, with a snap to replace the simple leather thong I had attached to the sheath, as well as a small leather holster for a 3 inch firesteel.

Photos are below.

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