Handmade Files : How They Are Made

[Grenadier]

http://www.ganoksin.com/benchtube/video/980/Inside-Auriou-Toolworks--How-Files-are-Made

[Blair]

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,
Blair

[Major 2]

very cool video

[Sir Charles deMouton-Black]

Mister Google told me this;  Files & rasps go back to the Egyptians.

http://www.artofmaking.ac.uk/explore/tools/3/Rasp

https://www.toolsforworkingwood.com/store/item/GT-CMRASP.XX/Gramercy_Tools_Hand_Cut_Cabinetmaker%27s_Rasps

[Grenadier]

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.

[treebeard]

Great video---I am going to show this to my son in law blacksmith as i think he will find it interesting.