Homemade File knife

I just started making knives this summer, and thought I would see what you guys thought of one I just made out of a old file, it's about 10 inch's overall length and I wrapped the handle with some bank line. let me know what ya think about it.


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thanks, it was stock removal, i shape it on a bench grinder, and finished it by hand.

i annealed it, shaped and beveled, then reharden and tempered it
my brother has been making knives for several years and i just started we're pretty low tech, so we use a simple fire for hardening and annealing, and motor oil for quenching, and a toaster oven for tempering

yea i would have liked to drop the handle more, but the file was only a inch wide, i did put file work then started the edge about 1/8 from the file work for add protection.