8/8 pattern welded Predator

[Bruno]

I already had my monster razors. Those are big choppers fit for a beheading. The Alien razors were supposed to be outworld-ish razors. Neither aggressive or friendly. As I was working on the Alien2 some time ago, I figured that I needed a predator as well. (you know, Alien vs Predator ). So I set out to make a razor that looked like it was an aggressive, lean and mean 'rip your head off' predator.

Given the desired look, I figured this would be the ideal candidate to finally do something with pattern welded steel. I got the steel from Dictum. It was a knife sized piece so I hammered it until it had the correct thickness. I made a number of slightly different design sketches, to see what would work best. I'm making them all in tool steel to see what looks good in real life, and I selected the most interesting looking one to be made in PW steel as well.

Because of the black blade, I decided to go with orange and black toxic scales to bring some color into it. I suppose green and black would have worked as well. This was what I had most of so I picked that.