Thanks RyanGi and SplinterGroup!
I used a hand grinder with a cut off disc to hack off a piece from an old plane blade. Then I blued it, scribed the finished outline on it, and rough cut to that line again with hand grinder. Then with a fine stone in my bench grinder I did the final shaping. Then this is what was put into the plane and out the bottom for me to scribe the bead and quirk. Used files, slips, 600 and 1200 wet sandpaper. All this before doing the bottom on stones as mentioned above in the post.
Do you like the "look" of it? The Aesthetics? Design?