How To Forge A Knife From A File. You can use a wide variety of tools to get the knife into the shape you want. 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!
Check if hardened with a fine file (skates on surface rather than biting) wash off all surface oil with steel wool or the like temper in oven twice at around 400 deg. 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. Mora knives aside, it can be difficult to find an affordable, quality bushcraft type survival knife.
Grinding the blade and tang.
The 50% is refundable in case a decision is changed if it's a knife that will be saleable otherwise. Heat until yellow using your tongs, grasp the steel and heat it in a forge to the point where the color turns yellow (around 2,100 to. You could also use a technique called back face shearing to trim off the tang or the end of the blade. It will be blackened from the burnt oil, so you need to take the time to clean it back to bright.