I figured it out. It was a full blown mistake on my part. When I started painting in the refractory, I put a wad of painters tape in the end of the ...

Hopefully I got those resized right, but it doesn't look like it. Edit - Fixed them.

Here is the first one I assembled. Like I mentioned, premade blade, the tang had the finger grooves already, although I did modify them slightly. St...

Thanks gents, and I will definitely contact him, thanks for the link!