There were a couple of things about carving the blade that I forgot to mention on Sunday. First, you need to taper the blade at the shoulder. See the picture at the left. Second, make the tip of the blade a little thicker than the rest to add durability. It doesn't need to be a lot thicker--just a smidgen. I tried to take a photo of this, but couldn't get it to come out right. Suffice it to say that it can run as much as 1/8" thicker than the rest of the blade edge. The blade shape will have a slight camber in cross section, as we talked about, and you should also be able to see this on the blade tip.
I'll try to get some better photos up this weekend...
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