Ngl sitting at the bar is the only way to truly appreciate a good brewery.

Don't you think the problem was less the steel and more getting the heat right? Those old rasps are basically high carbon steel with a ton of carbon in them, so they need a narrow sweet spot for forging. If you get it too hot even once, it starts acting like butter and then you're fighting it the whole way. I've screwed up more than a few projects by rushing and not letting the even heat soak all the way through. Did you try a slower, steady heat with a good 10 minute soak before you started hammering? That's the only way I've ever gotten good results out of file steel.

Actually @evan_jenkins you're off on one thing - those "mild shocks" from leaky appliances can absolutely kill people under the right conditions. A bad ground in a wet panel is way more dangerous than a tiny tingle suggests, especially if someone's touching something grounded nearby. The drama is that this guy caught a real hazard before it turned into something worse, not that he dodged a fireball.