I made this knife from an old Farriers rasp. It belonged to my dad who passed away many years ago. I have been holding onto this for quite some time and decided to make a knife out of it.

Nice skills mate.

Your dad would of been proud.

Jack

That's a beautiful piece of work. I like the way you left signs of the steel's previous life. An old rasp would likely eventually be tossed aside but I think that knife will be passed on for many generations.

They make fine cutting tools .

That is a beauty,love it. Very fine work. Pappy

That's beautiful! I'm doing the same thing from an old file my dad used in his auto body business. It's going to my sister for her birthday in a few weeks.

Very nice!

Well done and very thoughtful for your Dad.

Very nice.

Is there a site that has info on making a knife from a Farriers rasp or a file. I have several that I want to make into knives when I get back to the States and my tools.

You honor your Father's memory - Well done.

Great tribute.

A fine looking knife.

AWESOME knife. I would also like to have info om making a knife from a file. Forrest

Real nice work. Looks like it will do the job.

I thought it meant using a file to sharpen... Not I.

Very nice knife, by the way.

Nice

Tons of stuff on You Tube. I like the videos by a guy that goes by "Trollsky". He does some good work.

Thanks for all of the positive comments. Next Monday would have been his 103rd birthday. I have an old penny from the year that he was born. I am going to set that into the handle. I still need to make a sheath as well.

Very Nice

Beautiful knife!!

nice

Soldier said "Is there a site that has info on making a knife from a Farriers rasp or a file. I have several that I want to make into knives when I get back to the States and my tools."

I don't know about web pages but you want to test heat treat a rasp before you go through the work of making a blade from of it.

The manufacturers won't tell you what the steel is and some of the newer rasps don't respond well to "traditional" heat treating. They either don't get hard or they harden unevenly.

I have lots of them laying around (because I'm a farrier). I've used about all the brands over the years and have tested a bunch. I have found a couple that don't work well but I'll be darned if I can remember which ones they were.

I do know that the rasps I'm using now work great.

MGF, whose file are you usi g now?

Looks fit for a Viking

Nice!

The rasp I used was a 75 year old Keen Kutter.

I'm using "Save Edge".

That's a horsehoeing rasp. A plain old Nicholson file works fine too.

I've only been at it for about 35 years so I've never even heard of a Keen Kutter. LOL

I make a lot of knives out of files and I only use Nicholson files as they were made from Carbon steel and are hard. I leave them hard and grind the knives to shape and grind the blades tapers making sure i do not overheat the steel (turn it blue) They make great knives. I had a gun who I make one for tell me he cleaned 2 deer this year and never touched up the blade. Some of the cheaper files and I would guess rasps are not carbon steel and they are work hardened I have been told. My knives test around 58 - 59 rodkwell on the hardness scale

The Nicholson files act (I forge them and re-heat treat them) as though they are the old standard w1/w2 (or whatever it is).

I oil quench and they get hard as glass. Then I temper and they're just right.

I usually water quench the rasps and I've found a couple of brands that act pretty strange. They either don't get real hard or they're only hard in spots. Other brands work just fine.

I made a knife that my wife and I call the "ugly knife". I forged it from a piece of a horseshoeing rasp but I kind of messed it up...it happens some times. Anyway, I was going to trash it and I just tossed aside.

One day I was looking for something to do and decided to put an edge on it. It didn't seem worthy of a nice handle so I just wrapped a piece of cotton rope around it.

My wife does most of the butchering around here. She's not much on sharpening though and I make her chase me around to get me to sharpen all the knives she messes up. We have plenty of knives but the "Ugly Knife" is the first one that she reaches for.

Now she's after me to put a handle on it. The rope handle is pretty saturated with farm animal blood and stuff. It's a wonder that we haven't poisoned ourselves yet. It doesn't look like a good knife but it sure cuts like one.

Are you a viking who hunts or a man who hunts vikings? Zing....

@Polished Arrow: Yes.....

That is a great looking piece!

Finished the sheath for the knife.

Wow. Just, wow.

OUTSTANDING

Fine looking knife and looks like a serious hunting tool.

I finally got the penny to inset in the handle to finish my project. I thought I had one, but after searching through all of my old pennies, I didn't. Thanks to my brother's who "knew a guy", I now have a penny dated the year my father was born.

Close up of the penny. It's a 1911 D.

Viking Hunter

.... I bet your dad's looking down on this thinking ... "that's my boy" great knife ... great tribute

Well done

Nice work!

That's a great looking piece. Very nice work. Congratulations on a job well done.

Very nice work and good memories

great Job. Forrest

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