Thanks. Makes perfect sense now. I just had bottle openers in my mind

On 9/7/2017 at 6:51 AM, ausfire said:

Fair enough. It was good practice in forging the knife shape anyway. I guess I can't expect it to keep its edge for long. Might be good for letter openers though.

I've used old Ford wrenches from the early 1900's to make knives. I anneal then super quench with good results. Not like spring steel, but better than a spike knife. It's the Ford logo that really sells them.

No forging but I thought this was cute. mother feeding her hatchling's. sent from Facebook.

We Had a weekend playing with old spanners back in 2004, sorry about the picture quality.

This one started aas a single ended spanner, and  finished as a Twybil, used for making willow hurdles for fences or animal pens

A selection of the items made

An large ring spanner made int a candleholder, and a double open ended one made into mini bootscraper.

Found a great difference in materials used when the spanners were made.