Knowing how to fashion your own knife from an old, used up, hand file is an amazing skill to have in a survival situation.

Not only can you make a knife to suit your own, unique needs, you also could make several to have on hand in the event of an emergency or even to barter with.

While the only way to get good at this is practice, once you have mastered the basics of knife making, it is a skill that you will find valuable, particularly if faced with a longer-term survival situation.

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