This is a long kukri or kuhkuri. About 16 inches for the blade and 5 inch handle from the guard.
The steel is pattern welded from 1084, 1095, 1050 and 15N20. Folded to about 1600 layers. I did a bit of pattern manipulation and forged it to shape. Getting the right curvature was certainly not an easy task.
It was quenched in water with clay coating in the traditional Japanese way. Then polished by hand to a 2500 grit. Starting at 220 then 400, 600, 800, 1000, 1500, 2500. The hada or grain of the steel is beautiful. The pictures show better than any words I can use to describe it. The handle starts at the guard with a habaki made in the way the Japanese do but then shaped by hammering and carving a nice pattern to flow with the blade. The wood is cedar and a copper coin with my logo in the back makes the final touch for this beauty.

These are the original billets. 3 composite bars. I took this picture to see how the grain looked like as they were being welded into a 1600 layer billet.

This is after forging the shape and rough grinding.

Clay coating.

Heat treating the blade.

Cedar handle scales prior to assembly. Note the construction with hidden pins.

Habaki.

As the polishing process starts to show the grain and pattern of the steel.

After the polishing was completed.

Finished cedar handle.

View of the inlaid copper coin with my logo.

Finished habaki with the carvings.

Another detail of the copper coin with the logo.