Thanks guys for the places to look, last question do yall mainly do cut stuff like sheet steel or do yall do the whole forging process, i feel as if cut stuff is an easier and cheaper place to start?
The problem with using files, rasps and other sheet steels you have not idea what the carbon content is. A lot of files nowadays are case hardened, meaning mild steel interior and will not get hard. I don't buy from Jantz or Texas Knife, I buy too much steel and neither, have the steel I buy or have it lengths I want.
Pops Knife Supply is my supplier, I used to buy from Aldo at New Jersey Steel Baron but too many times he's out of what I want and his shipping has gone through the roof. I make and sell over 400 knives a year and every place I can save money, is who gets my business.