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Old 07-11-2012, 08:31 AM
Air&Road Air&Road is offline
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Wow! I would have thought that a railroad spike was way too soft to make much of a knife.

In my younger years I made a couple out of old leaf springs. I know that old files also made good knives.

I assumed that railroad spikes were cast, but maybe they are forged. Does anyone know?
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