Making It Yourself - The Sliver Kiridashi - Knife Build

I was trying to clean up my work space and came across this very thin off cut of 1095 steel. I was about to throw it away, but then I thought to myself I wonder if I could make this in to a knife. It was very thin and light so I knew I would have to add some weight to it. So I dug around my scraps bin and found a piece of brass that I could use as a handle material, this would add the needed weight. I started by cutting off the tip of what would become the blade with a hacksaw. Then I used my belt sanders to clean up the rough shape and added the bevel to the blade. I refined the bevel using my bastard file, i'm not very good at free hand grinding. Then I shortened the overall length by removing a portion of the steel with my angle grinder. I then center punched my pin holes. I just eyeballed this so I had to center punch the blade several times until I finally got closer to the middle. Since this will be covered by the handles I don't mind the extra divets. Then I drilled my pin holes. I then heat treated the blade and cut up some of the brass for the handles. I cut oversized pieces of the brass so it would be easier to drill the pin holes for the handles, accuracy is not my strong suit. I did some rough shaping of the handles and then epoxied everything together. After the epoxy set I cut off the excess pins and began shaping the handles. I really didn't know what I was going for I just removed material slowly until I found a shape I liked. After all theat was done I sharpened the blade using some sandpaper and a leather strop. I think this is a cool looking little blade especially considering it was headed for the trash bin. Thanks for watching!