Here is the scythe stone holder I made. It is of split redwood hollowed and then glued back together with a waterproof glue. The clip is made from an old silver butter knife. It has teeth in the bottom to keep it in place and a waxed cordage wrap on the top. I filled it a couple of times with very hot mix of linseed oil, beeswax and pine pitch to seal. I think I could have done it more as it was still absorbing when I stopped, but I don't think I'll have any problems. It works great. It's super light weight. I don't know where I got this stone, but it is very fine and seems to cut ok.

Picture of the anvil I forged. I actually made two but the first one was mild steel. I thought it was carbon steel, but didn't test it first. Always test it first! A lesson I have "learned" before, but I'm a little rusty (so to speak). Anyway, I had to temper this one twice, the first time it got away from me and went to a bronze with peacock highlights, but the second time I kept it at dark straw, just about where it is in this picture. It now seems to be a perfect hardness. Not a dent or ding in it.

Also in the picture I put a section of peened blade as I'm not sure what the curvature/radius of the top of the anvil should be. Does this look about right? I think I started too far back of the edge, and I also tried to peen a bevel into the blade after grinding out and re-profiling the blade without first filing a bevel back into it. Trying to stretch all that metal I ended up with some serious warpage. I had to take out this whole 1/4 inch plus get it straightened back out. Too bad, but very instructive anyway. Next step is to file in a bevel and then I assume a light peening before use.