What do you mean stop at steel?

Search for Tai Goo, Tim Lively and Wayne Goddard. Primitive knifemaking is another good term to search.

<a href="http://www.aescustomknives.com/>Ariel Salaverria</a> doesn't do primitive as far as I know, but he does have some tutorials for making some things that most makers buy/outsource. Tutorials for resin impermeated handle materials, like denim micarta.

This cool post showed up when I Googled "primitive knifemaking" <a href="http://paleoplanet69529.yuku.com/topic/40386#.TfYp7UfW5oE...;

If you (or anyone else, for that matter) is interested in talking about this stuff, shoot me an email (it's in my profile).