Thanks, Tarheel. I will take some more pictures and post them, but it will probably be tomorrow. By the way, Vince adorned the top of the handle with a pierced heart.

Vince is a knife and sword maker who lives in Hawaii, though I believe he was in Arizona when we first started corresponding about the project. His wife does the carving. I was referred to him by Lamar Britt. There are some other examples of his work in this forum.