Im actually out of metal for a guard this knife is going into temper fairly soon i wanted to touch up wat i could and make the bevel i didnt even have a vice until a month ago and i still have no bench lol im using a steel file cabnet atm xD but no thank u guys so much for the advice for my first id rather not get too fancy with it my filework was just eyeballed but itll definatly be wood handle with maybe two brass pins and insteae of having a huge amount of wood near where the guard should be i was thinking a simple slope in twards the ricasso this was made out of a small rasp/file so its no