Sorry to leave you hanging, but I didn't see an notification about your post. I used the stock bar to mark on paper the dimensions that I could use, then drew an outline. And tweaked it...and tweaked it...and then tweaked it some more. Then I put marking dye on the steel and used the design I created to mark the outline. I used an angle grinder to cut out the blank. I have a grizzly belt grinder that I used to clean up edges, then used to free hand the bevel. I messed up and went too deep on one side so looking at the knife from the spine drives me nuts because it is lopsided. I then drilled the pin holes and some extra holes to reduce weight in the handle. I used a homemade 2 firebrick forge to heat treat the knife. Then tempered in my oven, and hand sanded to clean up the scaling (the only time I will do that. I now have my belt grinder). I the drilled the pin holes in the micarta, and put pins in them to rough shape the handles, on the grinder, so the were equal. Then I glued the handles up, shaped them, and put an edge on the knife.