3D Art Homework 1, Part 1 - Preparing to model the knife

We've hit the ground running here in the first semester, so here I am with the first step of my first assignment.  This time around, we're expected to create a detailed, game res model of a folding knife over the course of the next three weeks, and we're starting by providing our reference.  In order to help me ease back into the semester, and for the sake of being better able to follow the videos, I decided to just stick with the default knife given as an example for the project, pictured below.  More later!