Question about honing steel

[cangcimen416]

so how honing steel heat treated?,i have dull file (high carbon steel) laying around that i want to make honing steel,my goal is to make chakmak for khukuri,i want make khukuri

 

[Stacy E. Apelt - Bladesmith]

You may need to get someone who speaks better English to post your question.

My guess is that you want to make a khukuri from a file. If that is your question, the stickys has a whole section on making a knife from a file. The stickys are at the top of the Shop Talk page.

Here is some info:
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/907667-How-to-Make-a-Knife-From-a-File

 

[cangcimen416]

You may need to get someone who speaks better English to post your question.

My guess is that you want to make a khukuri from a file. If that is your question, the stickys has a whole section on making a knife from a file. The stickys are at the top of the Shop Talk page.

Here is some info:
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/907667-How-to-Make-a-Knife-From-a-File

no i want to make honing steel from file

 

[Lieblad]

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[BlackHands]

Thats a pretty good question, I would think do a full brine slicing quench and dont temper. It will be useless as a pry bar, but that isnt the job itll be doing. If you drop it it might shatter, but it will hone like a champ. I have a few pieces of stellite laying around and often pick it up to hone on the edge. By the way, way make a hone from a file? If you check flea markets, junk piles, ask at restaurants, you can find nice chef/professional hones for cheap. I found one at a thrift shop that is top shelf 80-90$ new I think was a quarter!

 

[J W Bensinger]

To make a chakmak from a file just grind the teeth off and polish-if you don't burn it file temper is fine.
If it's highly polished it will burnish the edge straight rather than scraping material away.
I make chakmak from O-1 steel and just barely temper it, and leave the spine side a nice square corner for flint striking. The burnishing edge is polished bright and the corners are rounded off. Hope this helps.