Posted By: Cool Mo D
Carbon Content - 05/22/21 07:54 PM
I have some old files, how do you measure the carbon content?
Posted By: bjankowski
Re: Carbon Content - 05/22/21 09:02 PM
You really can't, when I buy files or rasps I heat treat them and quench them. I put them in a vice and hit them with a hammer if they break they will make a good knife. If the bend, they go in the trash. Some do a spark test but I'd rather be safe than sorry.
I normally just do the tail of the rasps and files, that way I won't take too much off the stock I'm going to use. I heat them in a gas forge to test them.
Posted By: bjankowski
Re: Carbon Content - 05/22/21 10:31 PM
Mike that's exactly how I do it, except I use my gas forge. My wife won't let me have a torch.
Posted By: J.G.
Re: Carbon Content - 05/22/21 11:36 PM
Mike that's exactly how I do it, except I use my gas forge. My wife won't let me have a torch.
I couldn't survive without my torch.