Recycling used farrier rasps?
George
projects? Forging blades perhaps? I send them off to Boggs file sharpening
several times then have just been giving em away to customers who do
woodworking.
I was thinking that if I annealed them I could forge the teeth on the rasp
cutting surfaces flat. I am concerned about cold shuts especially on the
rough sides big teeth if I do so. Maybe anneal, grind flat, then forge?
I'd love to find a use for these as I go through a ton of these each year.
I am not sure what type of steel is used for these rasps. Does anyone know
this as well?
Thanks!
George
Pete & sheri
Menagerie" which is sold by Norm Larson Books and by Centaur Forge.
This book has about 15 or 16 other animal heads, etc.. in it. If you
look around on the web, you may find the process written up in some
ABANA chapters website.
They are also good for hot rasping steel.
You can give them away to any blacksmith, me included.
If you were going to use them for some other purpose, I'd recommend
grinding the teeth off. That way there's no cold shut problem. Many
machine tool scrapers are made this way.
Pete Stanaitis
Trevor Jones
"primitive" look for the buckskinner types. Cold shuts or no, the blades
are plenty strong for their intended purpose.
Cheers
Trevor Jones
Ted Edwards
> Does anyone have any ideas for how I can use my used 14" hoof rasps for
> projects? Forging blades perhaps?
I have a two file wide shelf on the fron of my forge as a rest. Teeth
were hot flattened and the two tack welded together edge to edge. I
also hav ground a chisel-like point on the end of one, clamped it into
the tool post of my metal lathe and used it to cut a bowl shaped
depression in wood.
Ted
Tom Holt
in two over a mandrel to form the eye, cut off the excess length with
the hot set, and forge-weld a piece of carbon steel between the 'lips'
to form the cutting edge; heat to cherry red, then quench and polish.
As I understand it, most cold rasps are *not* carbon steel, though they
may be case-hardened; certainly, the ones I've recycled haven't taken
any hardness on quenching. I've made a couple of 'hawks out of worn-out
old (maybe a century old) rasps; they were pleasantly easy to weld, and
the pattern of the hammered-in rasp teeth is rather attractive.
Tom Stovall
farrier rasps - like most working farriers, I have a stack of used
rasps a show dog couldn't jump over on his best day.
I cut out the blank with a plasma cutter, forge/grind to shape, quench
in oil, temper in the oven @ 400º for an hour. With grinding, the
rasp/file patterns fade into the edge and give the blade a unique look.
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Martin Eastburn
or draw knife or such from it.
My brother made many a small belt knife from files. He bought them
from farmers and flea markets.
Martin
Curt Welch
http://bushcraftusa.com/forum/showthread.php/96524-Examples-of-Tomahawks-Pi
cs
And rasp snakes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Epcpc8wsz7k
And knives:
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/967303-Blacksmith-Farriers
-rasp-knife
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Years ago I bought an iron Chinese cleaver that one could stll see the
grains of the rasp in. It was smooth as hell though.
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