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I did read the sticky, but it takes longer to wrap my noggin around things then it used to. I do not know why I have been resisting the normalizing since it will be in the fire anyway I will give it two or three heats before quench . THANKS for pushing me along!

I've been working on my first knife made from a old file for a while now and have got a bit confused reading from many different sources. I annealed the file overnight in a very hot fire, then cut,ground and shaped my blade. I belive it is ready for heat treating which I will do in a coal forge but need to know weather it needs normalizing first. Isn't that what the orginal annealing did?

Hi guys, this is a great fourm and I look forward to learning a lot here. I am 54 years old and have found welding and blacksmithing as a hobby over the last few years. I enjoy fixing or fabbing things as well as working with glass and iron together.