Thanks for all the warm welcomes and advice! I've been crazy at work, but started my vacation yesterday so finally time to do this project,, I also brought home a bunch of waterstones from work, (posted a bunch of pics of my AMS after reprofiling on the Busse site) so I also plan on touching up the edge on the dagger,, although I'm going to leave the tip and 1/2 inch of edge from the tip alone,, as its geometry is perfect for piercing and the like...
I was also thinking (as I was hiking and fishing in the mountains of Virginia) that the dagger design would be perfect for lashing to a long branch as a spear if needed,, mostly because I couldn't get this finicky native trout to take my fly,,,almost wanted to spear the little sucker!