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Handmade Files : How They Are Made
« on: February 18, 2015, 02:03:04 PM »
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Re: Handmade Files : How They Are Made
« Reply #1 on: February 18, 2015, 04:25:15 PM »
Grenadier,

Excellent video!

What a lot of people don't realize is that there was a whole industry built up around the making of files.
Generically they were referred to as "file smiths". But, the cutting of the teeth in a file after the smith was finished was a very special trade known as file "cutters".
Each and ever one of those teeth you see in a file was originally cut, or perhaps I should say upset by hand.
All of this Smithing/Hammer work is, of course, done well before the hardening of the steel these are made from.
Thank you so much for posting...
My best,
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Re: Handmade Files : How They Are Made
« Reply #2 on: February 18, 2015, 04:29:14 PM »
very cool video
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« Reply #3 on: February 18, 2015, 08:27:05 PM »
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Re: Handmade Files : How They Are Made
« Reply #4 on: February 19, 2015, 09:57:11 AM »
I would imagine files go back to the Neolithic Age. Afterall, a rough piece of sandstone can work as a file  ;)


I think I am going to ask my wife for one or two of these rasps for my birthday.
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Re: Handmade Files : How They Are Made
« Reply #5 on: February 19, 2015, 11:14:24 AM »
Great video---I am going to show this to my son in law blacksmith as i think he will find it interesting.
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