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Jim I was thinking the same thing those types of tools are usually plated or some version of stainless, Either way I doubt you will have much success in a forge. Even with a stainless that is easy to work with lets say 440c since its one of the most common you need to preheat to 1400 then heat to 1875 and hold for 30 mins then quench...you cant do that in a forge and I have experimented say you only heat it to 1850 instead of 1875 or only hold a minute or 2 (because how are you going to hold anything at one set temp in a forge for a min or 2) it will drasticly change the HT...you may get lucky and make it harder than it is...maybe or you may make it softer....I would sugest finding something else ideally get some known high carbon steel (1084) so you CAN heat treat it in a forge. Or if your friend really wants you to turn a tool to a knife a high quality (NOT case hardened) file would do the trick...a lot of stuff would work better than what your trying to do now
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