Hi Fellas i managed to make a knife from a Farriers Rasp heated to non magnetic then left to cool in the Kiln shaped drilled then re treated then ground Bevels wood is Laburnum fitted with black liners Brass loveless bolts and tube hope you like it ATB .
Knife From Farrier Rasp
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it makes a good match strikerI like that a lot. Could you still use the blade to file/rasp soft material?
Edit - ah, no, I see you've taken the tops of the teeth - that makes sense.
cheers ATB
Cheers buddy its me second one i made one around 14 years ago lol i Treated it like 1095 steel it came out at 60 HRC 1 hour temper at 425F let it cool and repeat for another hour ATB PS Use quenching oil 50 seems to work better
Nice looking knife 
Always lots of character in old files and rasps
I've made lots of file knives and since I only use a couple of brands of file I took the time to try some heat treating recipes to make sure they worked. That then led to me just retempering the file instead of going through the extra steps of normalising and hardening I do all of my grinding post heat treat anyway so keeping it cool was no trouble for me and the tang area can be drawn off to soft easily with a torch for drilling/filing (filing a file always gives me a strange sense of gratification).
The next step is to make other tools from files, of course being able to forge is helpful there. I've got a number of turning tools above my lathe, centre punches, chisels and scrapers made from files because they are handy bits of hardened steel that can be modified into a tool mid job (though I often have to draw the tempers back with a torch to make them safer/better)
Always lots of character in old files and raspsI've made lots of file knives and since I only use a couple of brands of file I took the time to try some heat treating recipes to make sure they worked. That then led to me just retempering the file instead of going through the extra steps of normalising and hardening
I do all of my grinding post heat treat anyway so keeping it cool was no trouble for me and the tang area can be drawn off to soft easily with a torch for drilling/filing (filing a file always gives me a strange sense of gratification).The next step is to make other tools from files, of course being able to forge is helpful there. I've got a number of turning tools above my lathe, centre punches, chisels and scrapers made from files because they are handy bits of hardened steel that can be modified into a tool mid job (though I often have to draw the tempers back with a torch to make them safer/better)
Cheers Dave i always think old knifes look better they have there own character i don't have a forge so have to Anneal it in the kiln so i can drill and shape it then re-treat its my second one from a Rasp i did have a go 14 years ago that came out ok to thank you for the kind words ATB .Nice looking knife
I've made lots of file knives and since I only use a couple of brands of file I took the time to try some heat treating recipes to make sure they worked. That then led to me just retempering the file instead of going through the extra steps of normalising and hardening
The next step is to make other tools from files, of course being able to forge is helpful there. I've got a number of turning tools above my lathe, centre punches, chisels and scrapers made from files because they are handy bits of hardened steel that can be modified into a tool mid job (though I often have to draw the tempers back with a torch to make them safer/better)
you don't need a forge to anneal for drilling, just a plumbers blowtorch ;-) if you heat the area to be drilled to a very dull red then it will be soft enough to drill with standard HSS drill bits. Or buy carbide drills and don't bother, they will drill through hardened steel. Or even make a stick tang instead and then no holes required!
+1 for just tempering the steel down a few points and grinding hard. I did some tests a few years back and some files are impossible/very difficult to harden.
I would be interested to know what brand your Farriers Rasp was - I have found Bassoli to be good for knives.
Did you like the smell
I would be interested to know what brand your Farriers Rasp was - I have found Bassoli to be good for knives.
Did you like the smell
Hi it was indeed a Bassoli Rasp smell bit Horsey lol will use the off cut for a small Neck knife ATB+1 for just tempering the steel down a few points and grinding hard. I did some tests a few years back and some files are impossible/very difficult to harden.
I would be interested to know what brand your Farriers Rasp was - I have found Bassoli to be good for knives.
Did you like the smell
