Has anyone advice on a forged fillet knife?

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Okay I go ice fishing with my brother and his friends every other weekend and I have been having guys ask me "Do you make a fillet knife?" for so long that Im just sick of being asked it.

I know that a fillet knife is very thin, and so it would be hard to forge down from the John Deere load shafts that I use to make knives out of, but is there a chance I could do that?

Also, being that the fillet knife is so thin, even if I did grind out the knife, how do you do a correct heat treatment on it?

anyone know of a website where this is delt with?
 
it'll be tough.... you could forge to shape and leave it thick then grind it thinner, but going thin then heat treating is hard, it will probably warp, your best bet would be to leave it thick heat treat it, then very slowly, without overheating. grind it to its finished shape.
 
I have made a few. I hate them. The first was for a friend and I went through about 50 feet of band saw blade before I got the hang of it.

As you might have gathered, I make them from band saw blade (DUH)..to HT, I sandwich between two pieces of 1/8 steel and do the whole mess at once.

I found I had to forge some to remove the band saw memory that it retained after annealing and normalizing.

Grind with care using one of the 1/8 pieces of steel as a backing.

They are more difficult for me than miniatures!:barf:
 
If you have access to any thin stuff such as 15N20 bandsaw stock, that may be the ticket. I don't know how well it would be as a filet blade. I know it isn't much help but I made some out of 440C in the past, stock removal. I would do the same with 15N20.

Craig
 
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