Glenn Posted January 12, 2008 Share Posted January 12, 2008 Reality check: What is the cost of a new file? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finnr Posted January 12, 2008 Share Posted January 12, 2008 Files are cheap enough that after A couple cleanings when the are in fact dull, they become stock. Less effort to pick up a new one than fiddle around trying to make a dull fine less dull. Wore out is wore out! Finnr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbob Posted January 13, 2008 Share Posted January 13, 2008 Reality check: What is the cost of a new file? I think thats like everything else it depends on where you buy it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ice Czar Posted January 13, 2008 Share Posted January 13, 2008 Reality check: What is the cost of a new file? when its one you need but don't have? priceless I really would like to be able to make small custom rifflers and die sinks when needed, even if they are just reworked files that are ground, bent and re-cut for a 12" guess you'd use a sacrificial graver or a very small abrasive wheel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tecnovist Posted January 13, 2008 Share Posted January 13, 2008 Some times its not about buying a new one ----its about how it can be done and the knowledge grained by doing it --- and when your way out in them hills haven an other way of doing stuff is priceless--- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbob Posted January 13, 2008 Share Posted January 13, 2008 The Book "The Recycling,Use & Repair of Tools by Alexander G. Weygers isbn 0-442-29357-7(cloth) or 0-442-29358-5 (paper) chapter 19, Files,Rasps, and grindstones pg 71 How to clean dirty but sharp files,acid sharpening....Making Files and Rasps 73...a File cutting jig. etc. I think you can now get all three of his books in one on E-bay...it a good read and as pointed out you need to make one sometime Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tecnovist Posted January 14, 2008 Share Posted January 14, 2008 Alexander G. Weygers the Moden Blacksmith is a good book i have it --- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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