Safety is important, wear eye protection when grinding.



Make sure your water cup is nearby (not pictured)



I started with grinding the tip, just grind away until its just outside the lines of your template



*Go slow, you can always grind more, but you can't put it back.



After a few seconds of grinding the steel may get very hot, we don't want to change the temper of the steel, so after a few seconds of shaping, dunk it in the water cup. if you hear it sizzle you were getting too hot, and will want to do it a little sooner



After getting the tip right i roughed out the rest of the shape. grinding and dipping in water, and grinding...



When it was pretty much the shape I wanted, it was time to grind it thinner. I had picked the back of the knife to be my pick, and that is where the blade was thickest, so i had to grind it from being very V shaped into a much thinner || shape. I did this by slowly grinding off the side of the blade that does not have the fingernail opening divot (this also happened to be the opposite side from my template too)



*remember go slow, if you grind it too thin it will be weak, you want a nice even grind, so keep the blade moving and inspect often.



Once it was as thin as my other picks, I finished following the template and grinding off any other rough parts.



