OK, I'll look into the welding, thanks. I want a bone cleaver built for me.
Have some worn out big old mill files that might be a nice curved edge contour.
Just remember to use your cleaver every day, if you can.
I made masks from very heavy paperboard card stock = good enough to toss them all in a kitchen drawer.
They're all glopped up with cuts and greasy stains. . . . . .
All my old stuff seems heavier metal than what I see in western kitchen stores in this day and time.
They remind me of your cleaver but not half so elegant.
Meant to ask:
When I use any of my cleavers, my ring finger is on the bolster, my pinkie on the handle.
First and second fingers on one side of the blade, thumb on the other side.
I had to round off the spine for an inch or more as it worried the side of my first finger. You, too, maybe?