What is the Difference Between Files, Floats, Rasps and More 

So true. There's a reason the blacksmith has considered the heart of the town.

I'm sure the lunch break file will work wonderfully.

But whats your hourly rate worth?

I think I learned the same lessons at one time lol got to love great teachers

That is a constant problem for a lot of people.

Right on. I use to do jewelry work.ade my wife's rings and a few for others. It was a fun hobby. But I had to sell my bench. Might have to make another one.

Look Auriou rasps if you like well made tool.

glad to help!

Thanks.

Nice. Sweet fine.

Thanks for the feedback. Always like hearing other ideas.

His speech is clear and concise. This video was excellent.

Right on. I was thinking of adding in the file holder to the conversation but decided to leave it alone.

thanks. and congrats on first

There are a lot of other ones I could have added but again I was trying to pair it down to keep the video around 20 minutes.

Right on. I have turned a few of mine into plane irons or dowel plates.

Sorry man. I have caused a few wife issues that way.

I made the rules. Just out of waxed canvas. The makers are a few different ones. There was a guy in Italy who bought a whole pallet of them years ago and sold them off and I got one of everything.

Im sorry, but you cannot sharpen files with acid. Acid works to etch the surface....the whole surface. What is sharp???? Its where 2 surfaces meet with the smallest amount of radius (zero radius is technically not possible) Say you have an edge, and its razor sharp, its got that theoretical "zero" radius. It gets used and now it has 1mm of radius. You place it in acid and it etches the material....when you take it out, its still got that 1mm radius, just slightly smaller now than before. Lets scale it up......theres a mountain with a sharp pointed peak......its eroded over time from wind and rain (similar to the way acid erodes material).....it doesnt keep its sharply pointed peak, it rounds off. I think acid would actually make things less sharp (making up my own terms now hehe) Say you put a brand new file into acid, I think the acid would eat more from the sharp edges than the rest of the material.....lets say acid eats 0.5mm of metal per hour. You have an edge with "zero" radius......where those 2 surfaces meet is smaller than 0.5mm....so the acid ruins the edge and rounds it off.......I wish I could draw a diagram on here to show what I mean by this. If we could sharpen edged tools with acid, wouldnt we all forgo the sharpening and honing on stones and just dunk our chisels, saws and plane irons into a vat of acid over night and awake to sharp tools in the morning? Acid "sharpening" of files is nothing more than cleaning, and id imagine any felt effect of it cutting better is a placebo effect, or simply because its cleaner than it was before......the same way a file cuts better after its cleaned with a file card. Im with James on this one....it really gets to me when someone mentions acid sharpening.......its cleaning, not sharpening. Dunk your freshly honed chisel into acid and see if its still sharp when it comes out. I dont mean to have a lambasting tone to my words.....this just really gets to me....I dont mean to offend :)

@@whittysworkshop982 Well explained. On the other hand, if you immersed a table knife in acid until you'd removed 1/128 of an inch you'd develop a jagged edge that would scrape more effectively. When I've acid treated dull files they didn't become good as new but they did cut wood again where they'd previously skated over the surface. I agree that some of the crud loading the teeth of a file that can't be cleaned with a file card and a pick will be removed by acid. I suspect 90% of apparent file wear is the result of abuse, of attempting to file tool steel or non-ferrous metals.

I have found the wax I use for my taps and dies works well for this also.

I have tried those a few times, maybe one of these days I will get a couple.

Lots of work, but often well worth it back then they were worth a LOT more then they are now.

@@WoodByWrightHowTo Vor files Rheydt had mashines. This job wos most comment in the time of ddr. They where close of reasoces so they reshapened the files.

@@WoodByWrightHowTo Here is a Video of this job. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8owKXUqlVMk.html

Wery intresting

I just sold those up myself. Wax canvas and folded over stitch it with a few pockets and you're done.

I make mine. The blue ones are made out of waxed canvas. Just an hour or so with the sewing machine and you can make a specialty roll that'll fit your tools.

that is a hard question if you do not know what sharp feels like. but when they get dull they are just slower. they will still work they just get slower and slower.

@@WoodByWrightHowTo I understand, its just hard to actually let go of some tools sometimes🥲

I sewed them. Just used some waxed canvas.

I don't think I've ever used the same one twice. they are so individualized that generally you want to buy the riffler for the project you're working on. If you buy them ahead of time not knowing the project you'll probably never get the right one.

Rasps I’ve looked had a grain numbering system, 9 grain being coarser up to 15 grain bring finer.

A few company's try to, but most of the time they are just refered to as course, medium and fine.

Feel free to send me some pictures in an email. You can find the address in the about me tab on the channel page.

The work involved would be astronomical and have a better chance of messing it up. Even a blacksmith would rather make a new one then re file one.

@@WoodByWrightHowTo ah ok, well thanks for the info :)

Diamond files are great for metalworking but they can be expensive and they wear out very quickly. They're not very good for woodworking there. They clog up too fast

@@WoodByWrightHowTo Thank you very much. I have lots to learn, but you have plenty of videos so I better get started. I appreciate it!

Just feel it. A sharp one catches on the skin. But most of the time with old ones you don't just buy one but a bucket of them.

Crazy amount of work that goes into making them.

Answered below. Thanks for your videos, always instructive

I do not hold to the belief that they are incredibly important. Most people out there do not use them with a handle. And as long as you're not using them in a power tool method it's really not that big a deal. So I got a few videos on the topic talking about it. And I have a couple of videos showing how to make handles for them.

There are two companies that have it, but the price is about the same as hand stiched.

A quick bath in a rust remover will fix that. If it is just surface rust I would just oil them and put them to use.

Ya there were a lot of other types I could have gone into but had to draw the line somewhere sorry.

@@WoodByWrightHowTo I suppose that's true. Thanks again for the video!

no I carved those before I got the rifflers. but they are not very useful for chip carving.

@@WoodByWrightHowTo Oh, okay. Just wondered. So more along the lines of like the grapes and grape leaves one might see on a mantle in Victorian era homes?

yes there were quite a few other types I would have liked to go into, but in the sake of time I had to stop there. I may do a live vide on them soon where i can cover a lot more.

that one drives me bonkers too!

@@WoodByWrightHowTo I love a good 4 in hand

@@WoodByWrightHowTo don’t throw away dead files, give them to your local blacksmith for knife making

You can resharpen a file !!! Simple soak it in the acid of your choice and the acid removes small amounts of steel from the file leaving the cutting teeth sharp. This is what file manufactures do when they make files, and what boggs file sharpening service does So yes you can resharpen a file !!!!

@@Mr71paul71 nope. Sorry pal. You cleaned it and etched the surface. Leaving it porous. No way it was sharp as when it was new.