Knife making question

[hatchetjack]

There are a couple of detailed videos on YouTube with guys making whole finished knives out of old files without any forge. Search for those. Good stuff.

 

[BubbleHead09]

If a man could get a hold of a piece of the steel he wanted to make a knife out of, could he just cut it out, shape it, and heat treat it and call it good? I don't have a forge and probably won't have time to use it to make the investment worth it. Thoughts?

You want to check to see the carbon level of the steel. If you grind it and the sparks splinter out it should be a good steel. Start with a run of Forged in Fire, the earlier ones are better.

 

[User170512]

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[rvkcflyer]

Or you can go here where he has all the tools supplies and coaching to turn out a knife in a Saturday or Sunday. I made the railroad spike into a knife. Lots of fun. https://www.hammeredheartforge.com/

 

[tv_racin_fan]

If a man could get a hold of a piece of the steel he wanted to make a knife out of, could he just cut it out, shape it, and heat treat it and call it good? I don't have a forge and probably won't have time to use it to make the investment worth it. Thoughts?

People do exactly that with saw blades.

Some of the knife makers do not forge they purchase flat bar cut and grind it to shape.