Just finished my first custom knife last night. The blade is an old Nicholson file, the scales were made from a whitetail shed I found about 2 years ago. Copper pins and a brass lanyard sleeve. Blade polished to 200o grit. It's far from perfect, but this one was basically a test run to see if I was capable of making one. All in all I have about 20 hours of work into this one. I am beyond thrilled with how it turned out so I now have a pile of rasps and am planning to get into custom knife making.