Next knife

I just thought I would put up my virtual prototype and try to get some feed back on my design. The slot is made to hold a 1/4" firesteel. When I saw the sparky knife it kind of bummed me out since I thought I had this great idea but you can't always be first. Anyway I didn't think the sparky has a clean enough design for me so I am going to give this a shot. I am also not sure if I could use the sparky when my hands were so cold that the fire was literally a lifesaver.




I am thinking the handles can be orange G10 material or maybe some dense wood. I know I don't want to mix natural and man-made and I have doubts about wood holding up on the teardrop shapes. Bone, antler? My other option is to use 3/16 material for the blade and mill a groove on the scales so I could still use a 1/4 diameter rod. If you look at the sharp end of the tear drop you can see the hole where I plan to pin it for strength. The more I look at it the more I want it to be one piece instead of two slabs, edit, think, edit, think, it never ends.





Like I said I want feedback so please let me know your thoughts.

Thanks,
kwog