Tentacled Dagger

Some knives you design, and other knives design themselves.  This one definitely designed itself.

It's the blade I made in J Arthur Loose's Viking Dagger class which I've posted before.  I wanted to have some continuity between the handle and the blade, and I got the idea of continuing the lines from the blade core into the handle, from there the lines took off on their own and became a mass of tentacles.  From that point on I was pretty much just along for the ride.

The wood in the handle is cherry and the fittings are brass.  The blade is 9' and overall it's 14" long.  It needs a sheath, but I have to take a break - the sheath it told me to make is pretty complicated  :-\