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Surface rust comes off easily, not a problem. Try your dremel with a steel wire-brush thingy first, and if that doesn't work, get more aggressive with sandpaper and so on. Do those files have any marking near the tang? Go easy taking off that rust, there might be a stamping under there.

You can drill hardened 440 with a carbide bit in your drill press. You could mount a handle with just epoxy, but I wouldn't recommend it.

Nice knives. :thumbup:
 
I hit the tang part off a long time ago when I was young. It broke when I hit it with a hammer on an anvil. I thought I was being a blacksmith I guess.
 
SteAlhunter, welcome to bladeforums! I can't see your pics, bummer! (not your fault mine. I have a 9 year old cheap at the time computer to get me to the net) Sounds like you are a better grinder that me by a long shot! I am the type that can get flustered and need to do something else for a while. What I do is read. I have a pretty thick "library" of stuff printed off of the net (when I did have a good net connection, but different story). Anything from misc threads here, to Verhoeven's "Mteallurgy of Steel for Bladesmiths & Others who Heat Treat and Forge Steel", even a free download og Goddard's "$50 Knife Shop". Tons of info here. Use what you got and just go from there. I got lucky with tax returns last year and then a small bonus this year and bought a 4X36 belt/disc grinder, and 72 linear feet of steel in 4 flavors. I can't quite seem to be happy with what by grinding looks like to save my a$$, but I like to think I have at least some sort of insight to the what and why of heat treating what and why.

James, re:post #19. Thanks, I learn sumptin' about every time I read here.

Matt
 
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