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Found a 150 year old farrier's rasp at an estate sale in Ohio last Saturday
I cleaned off the rust and tried using it to drawfile a set of bottle openers and man that old steel holds an edge way better than the cheap Nicholson files I've been buying at the hardware store - has anyone else noticed old files outlasting new ones or am I just lucky with this one?
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the_ryan20d ago
Had a buddy find a set of old cabinet rasps at a flea market in Indiana a couple years back. He cleaned em up and used them to shape some walnut for a table he was building and swore the teeth just cut through wood like butter compared to the new ones he'd been burning through. He even took a micrometer to one of the old rasps and found the steel was way thicker than the modern Nicholson file he had from Lowe's. That old stuff was just made different, plain and simple.
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