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My first rasp snake


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Ya created a nice snake Gaylan!
In fact it looks good enough to give me the Willies!
I would like to try my hand at making one, but I have a question about when you fold the rasp! How do you keep from smashing the file teeth? or is that an issue?
Thanks for the view!
Ted Throckmorton

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Drakeo11,
yes you just forge into a cylinder shape if it starts to twist then put in a vise and straighten with tongs the tail is the handle end of the rasp and on the head end i forged a piece of 1/2" square bar to look like a head then forge a taper on the other end put it in the end and welded then forged out the weld.
Ted to answer your question I forged it at a high red to low yellow and the heavy rasp side is out it knocks it down some but makes a nice texture.
Thanks for all the nice comments!!
Gaylan

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They make lots of scale! Tonight I have to finish off rasptle snake #'s 9 & 10 of this years "crop" for the NM state fair. Last year I sold a dozen, paid for the winters forge propane.

I get used farrier's rasps as starting stock. I also thin down the tail and thread punched bottle caps on it to make "rattles" that give a pretty good impression of the sound of the real thing!

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no digital camera or cellphone! I charge US$25 at the fair and 20% goes to the club. I've done so many of them that I'm playing with the tails---red white and blue, all mexican beers, UNM colours, etc. I have a large pool of friends that supply me with way too many bottle caps!

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