File that under hot

Health issues are still nagging so I've decided to tackle some smaller projects that have been on my radar for quite some time.  Over the years I've amassed a small collection of files and they are just getting knocked around under foot.  Decided to take a shot at making a kiridashi. A kiridashi is a small knife used by Japanese cabinet makers for drawing very fine, very accurate lines on wood. For a variety of reasons, I have avoided forging weapons- a long, generally ugly story involving brains, guts, and other generally messy things found in splatter movies like Evil Dead or maybe one of the Tarantino classics. 

Today started with a annealing a file and burying in vermiculite to slowly cool overnight.