to resize it, click browse. then, find your pic. and right click it.  hold the mouse over "open with" until you get more options and open it with paint. then go to image (top left corner area) and go to streach/skew. change the highth and whith from 100 to 20 and save it. then exit out (click yes to save) and then click on you're picture and hit open then post the reply, it should post.

Eric,
      That is an epic looking maquahuitl, I like the designs, but you really don't need to forge completely new blades.  What you can do is just cut the shape out of sheet metal and perhaps just temper it, if you have the facilities.  I've done that to make knife blades, minus the tempering.  If you want really beefy blades, you can go to the hardware store and get one of those plates they put into foundations of houses.  You can get a whole mess of maquahitl blades out of one of them.  You will, however, need either a bandsaw or a drill, a file, and plenty of time. (Bench grinders help too  )

This is a picture of my steel-bladed maquahuitl. I still have to finish the braiding on the handle end. I notched a hickory sledgehammer handle with a disk grinder, and the blades are from a piece of haying equipment, and are called sickle sections. They are carbon steel, and held in place with that good primitive qlue, Liquid Nails.

With school progress is going slow im still searching for materials I wish I had more time on my hands but I promise you guys a beautiful maquahuitl when im done

if you have trouble flint knapping theres a guy on youtube called paleomanjim who has dozens of clear tutorials that could help alot