How to forge a knife from a file with success
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Link to post share on other sites. If the file cuts the steel of your blade, it is not as hard as it should be. You can use a wide variety of tools to get the knife into the shape you want.
Im nearing the end of a file knife, and i just annealed it by heating it evenly then turning off the air supply to the coke in the forge and allowed it to cool overnight hope this helps monty.
After the final heat its back in the wood ashes to anneal for final shaping which i do with files and sandpaper. This listing is for 2 x knives made from high carbon steel, we initially ordered them to be made form files but they are made from blanks with the file texture pressed on to them also the cutting edge is not up to our normal standard, so we put them in clearance, just not quite what we wanted! Let it air cool in between heatings until all of the red is gone. In order to shape this file into a knife i first used a hack saw to remove the tang of the file and then used an angle grinder with a grinding wheel, and ground the file to a shape which i had drawn onto it.
