Forged Full Tang

[Silverthorn K&T]

Full-tang knife hand forged from a file. Blade is edge quenched and double tempered, hand finished to 400 grit. Stabilized Ipé scales with brass pins and brass lanyard hole, soaked in Tung Oil and waxed. Overall length is 7.5”, blade length is 3”. Comes with single piece Kydex sheath. $185

 

[Silverthorn K&T]

Full-tang knife hand forged from a file. Blade is edge quenched and double tempered, hand finished to 400 grit. The handle is stabilized London Plane (with a small amount of black dye added to the stabilizer), mosaic pins and lanyard hole, soaked in Tung Oil and waxed. Overall length is 8.25”, blade length is 3.75”. Comes with single piece Kydex sheath. $185

 

[cbach8tw]

What kind of wood is London Plane? Just curious, very nice size. Were the files old Nicholson files, possibly w2 steel or one of the 10xx series (1075, 1084, 1095)? I checked out the site listed, can you say what RC hardness you get on the file knives? I know they have to be annealed to bring the hardness down, just curious how you do that.

 

[Silverthorn K&T]

Thanks for your interest, cbach8tw! Where in VA are you? Tech grad here.

London Plane is a Sycamore hybrid, that's why they look so similar. This particular material I brought home from the UK as scrap from my time working there as a cabinetmaker.

I don't remember the make of the file, but it was certainly USA made (don't work with anything else). They are probably W2, and I aimed for an edge hardness of 62Rc for this blade.

To answer your annealing question...I am working with a (by most folks standards) primitive setup: coal forge and hammer. Once a file gets worn out from use, it gets annealed in the forge, the teeth are ground out, and then the blank is
forged to shape, including the bevels.