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I'll play around with it hopefully tomorrow if I have time since it's my day off and will update. Thank you for all the info I appreciate it!

They were new files. Some harbor freight specials.

Hey guys thank you for all the information I have been playing with the steel a bit and I have been busy with work and the girlfriend but what I can tell you for now is it's 2inch wide I have to heat it and quench it to see about the hardness since it's mystery steel it was used I guess as extra support that was screwed into some old shelving but it's already pretty hard my files don't really bite into the steel that well but more updates to come and I did cut out a knife from it just need to hear it and see about the hardness.

I have a good length of 1/8 thick flat stock, about 8ft long I got from my job for free and I wanna make a sword or something out of it but I didn't know if that would be thick enough for anything but maybe a long knife or something like that so I was wanting some ideas of something I can do with it. Note I am new to smithing so i may not get technical terms. Thanks in advance.