Looking good, When are you making the leather clothing for it, I have a Spearwell that looks just like that, this one.
Nice job Mark.
I've been using Neutra-rust 661 on some of my axe heads & billhooks recently for longer term storage, it's a rust converter (usually used on my landy chassis!) that gives a sort of blue-black patina once it dries, is fairly robust and doesn't seem to dull the edge. I tried it because I was fed up with finding rust spots developing on my cutting tools.
Dave