Jim Logajan wrote:

While your post was otherwise informative and provides a fine educational
hands-on exercise, the alleged economic justification is, to put it
diplomatically, misleading (in other words I don't think you should have
bothered with that particular rationale because it just doesn't fly - even
costing the labor at minimum wage and assuming free material and zero
amortized tool costs, it would have been cheaper to buy the blades.)

Just saying....

Perhaps but I think it would be fun to do just once to prove I could.
I'd probably use old hacksaw blades to make my own 'X-ACTO' type knives.
They already are made of the right steel and they're easy to anneal and
harden.

Tony