George Knives
Building a Sub-hilt fighter
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Bolsters are peened down and good to go.  The shifted a little in the peening process, but I left enough material that I
can grind everything back into alignment.  
Setting up the insets and the scales to fit into the dovetailed bolsters.
Gluing the scales on
The extra glue is all ground off and it's time to put some contour to it
I get about 99% of the work is done on the grinder, then I finish blending out the lines by hand.
Finishing things up with sharpening the blade, you can see the wire edge in the first two pics.  That pretty much finishes
things up for this one!