Thanks guys. Long ways to go and may ways to go wrong.

I fianlly was able to find the term I was looking for - sgian achlais.

That's the main one that's got me worried. It is a patterned steel (damasteel, a little complicated to explain) -



Mine will look like the one on the left. Right is hollow ground.

Haven't done to many daggers so it is always a slow walk to get the grinds even. VERY easy to over grind and impossible to fix.

Jim