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.
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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.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.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?