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Many/most of the blades from the F&I War period, the Fur Trade era and up until the Civil War were forged. This spreads the blade metal some and can create a "choil" of sorts on a typical single edged blade. It allowed the full length of the blade to be sharpened if the blade was wider than...

When I was doing Boy Scouts back in the day and was part of a living history program we helped the boys make knives. I took my traveling forge and a bunch of file steel and we forged and filed the blades then put on slab handles. In order to avoid the problems you are having we used contact...