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Attention Summer Shop Talk Challenge - File Knife

Made this one for a friend of mine. The blade was an old disston porter file, and the handle is layered black denim and canvas from an old camo fatigue I use to wear when me and said friend would go hiking and camping together. Under the thorough instructions of Stacy E. Apelt - Bladesmith Stacy E. Apelt - Bladesmith I clay hardened the blade and got a nice hamon from it! I cut the rough outline with an angle grinder and did all the rest with a harbor freight 1x30 belt sander. I made the kydex sheath with a toaster oven, two pieces of thermo resistant foam, and two boards that I sat on to act as a press.
 

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"You can always make a project of it and try to case harden it again. Another choice is to edge quench it in brine."

My neighbor wanted to mess with trying to get it to harden. I told him to have at it. He helped me make the same knife again but from a leaf spring this time.

I tossed a mill file in the kiln while I was annealing the leaf spring knife, so I'll have something to mess with for this challenge. I cut a little chunk off the end and heated it with a torch and quenched it to make sure it would harden before I get too involved with it. Lol
 
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