Thread: First Knives
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Old 01-27-2017, 02:31 PM
ash_a101 ash_a101 is offline
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Originally Posted by Hunter10139 View Post
Good first knives ash! Just out of curiosity, is the tip of the larger knife from the part of the file you would normally handle? Did you temper these or anneal and reharden?
I'm not sure if I quite follow your first question. If you mean is it the tang of the file, then nope, I used the working portion of the file. And yes, I annealed them in a fire pit (put them on a couple bricks so they wouldn't bow too much), let that die while the blades were still in it, and then let everything cool in there. Then I did most of my profiling, tossed them in the forge to heat treat, quenched in veggy oil, and then tempered them in the oven twice.
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