Wow thanks a lot for taking the time to answer! I really appreciate it! I've seen a lot of threads on other forums that appear to die as people move on to other projects and replies usually tend to get left in the dark so it means a lot that you replied so quickly!
All the info you have given is extremely appreciated, I shall look for a better knife definitely, mine where a cheap set really and it was a piece of plastic that started to wear in the middle of each knife and eventually snapped but I am a touch heavy handed too I suppose haha, also I'm using gorilla super glue, which is quite expensive really but I have recently picked up some cement that I'm eager to try out.
I will most definitely keep a close eye on your progress on Facebook and instagram too as I'm very much a beginner and frankly your work appears to be flawless
I'm already looking at improving parts as I'm going along with the build anyway so I'll see how to get on, I'm using templates from pep printouts and sort of going from there trying to work out my scaling correctly too, which hasn't been too bad.
I'll message you on Facebook with a question or two as to not fill this up too much heh heh
Again many thanks! Can't wait to see it finished