[Smith357]

I like to occasionally make a knife. I generally use old files or other tool steels, this particular one was made from a large rusty bastard file that I got at a garage sale in a 5 dollor box of rusty tools.

I ground the blade in an very odd shape, and it is sharpend around the rounded point and halfway back the top. I made my first attempt at some rudimentry file work.... meh. I also did a rudimentry heat treat to the blade and may have over hardened it because when I was buffing the blade it fell on the concrete floor and took a large chunk out of the floor without a scratch to the steel, and it was very hard to sharpen on a natural stone.

I wanted a very primitive and rustic look to it so, after polishing the blade. I soaked it in gun blueing compound overnight then buffed off the scale. The leather stack grip has bee saturated in super glue to make it dark and hard and to help keep the leather from shrinking and loosening up over time.


So in concusion here it is.

[hso]

Excellent!

[Valkman]

I like it! Next time after hardening put in the oven for an hour or two at 400 degrees and that'll soften the steel up some.

Lookin' good!

[colt.45]

cool! at least you know it will hold an edge for a while

[Matthew748]

You might think it looks primitive, but I think it looks very nice. You should see some of the monstrosities I have made. People in prison would probably turn their noses up at them.

[Charles S]

Very nice knife.

Charles

[middy]

I also did a rudimentry heat treat to the blade and may have over hardened it because when I was buffing the blade it fell on the concrete floor and took a large chunk out of the floor without a scratch to the steel, and it was very hard to sharpen on a natural stone.
If it was too hard it would have shattered. Sounds like you treated it just right.