Here is the design for the last knife I am making. It is a bit larger and hopefully will be better than the other two. ( If I can finish in time.)

Before rough cutting the blank on the band saw, I drilled the holes for the handle on the vertical mill. I used the machine's digital readout to pinpoint where I wanted the holes to be. 

Afterwards, I proceeded to rough cut and grind the blank

While quite good, the knife I recently finished was not the knife I wanted to end with. I originally anticipated that making knives would be easier and that I could make a multitude of knives while learning dozens of different methods. I am a bit disappointed with the fact that I have only mustered two knives in three weeks. I want to make my last knife be a bit nicer, to be my final achievement that encompasses this entire project. So I have decided to make one more because currently I am not yet proud of what I have accomplished. This last knife I am making as the final fruit of my labors in learning these skills.

I finally needed to get down to sharpening. This is one of those things where one either clueless or a master of the subject. I needed to become the latter, so this wasn't going to be easy. Learning it requires extremely tedious sessions of trial and error and a steady hand. I began by submerging this Japanese water-stone in a jug of water and started scraping away at it whilst holding the knife blade at an incredibly steady angle of about 20 degrees. The leather strap has polishing compound in it and was used to straighten the edge and help it hone after I used the stone.

I am very good at grinding a piece steadily mainly from my practice during this project. This step requires that I do this for a very long time until I get a feel for what works. To test what works, I was constantly slicing up pages in a book to see how the paper resisted the slicing. Eventually, I got a feel for how to do it right. I got it to the point at which I could shave with it.

This is after I began shaping the handle

And I am using same old tung oil.

I've accumulated about an inch of dust on the grinder since the project began.

Would make one hell of a pencil sharpener...

I now needed to finish the metal to its final appearance. I used both jigs again to shine up the metal and get rid of the black from the oil quenching.

Here I put the final grind on the top of the knife.

This is the knife blade's final appearance. (aside from the sharpened edge.)

I then used epoxy and clamps to finally make the wood bond with the metal. 

Here I am showing the handle of the knife fitted to the handle. 

Those two blocks of wood are the handle off of the knife, In this configuration I did most of the woodworking. I mainly only needed to do the work in the hard to reach areas, such as the front of the handle, where it meets the knife.