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Well all I can say is I've never had a flat file that failed to fully harden. I quench in Parks50 abd have my heat treat numbers down, so maybe that helps. As for horse rasps, I've had a few Nicholsons fail to harden but then I've had some Belotas harden and make great knives.

I make file knives because I think they are cool. Kinda neat to make something out of grandpa's old tool from the 30's. My hunting knife when I elk hunt is a Nicholson file. Skinned many an elk with that so I know it's good steel.

Well all I can say is I've never had a flat file that failed to fully harden. I quench in Parks50 abd have my heat treat numbers down, so maybe that helps. As for horse rasps, I've had a few Nicholsons fail to harden but then I've had some Belotas harden and make great knives.

I make file knives because I think they are cool. Kinda neat to make something out of grandpa's old tool from the 30's. My hunting knife when I elk hunt is a Nicholson file. Skinned many an elk with that so I know it's good steel.

I've never been intrigued by a file knife. I think these 2 just changed my mind.