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Jamestown Distributors www.jamestowndistributors.com has a sale on woodworking tools. They have #49 and #50 cabinet rasps for $29.99 ea. This may be of interest to luthiers. I got one there a couple years ago for $37 and thought it was a good deal.

Max

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Max Bishop
Brighton, Michigan

I did this deal last year, these are really great rasps at a good price. Really a pleasure to work with. I think they are usually around $50 each.

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Jonathan Kendall, Siloam Springs AR

I have no experience with Nicholson rasps, but have been wary of them since seeing this blog. Any truth to the quality issues presented in this article?


http://www.toolsforworkingwood.com/Merchant/merchant.mvc?Screen=NEXT&StoreCode=toolstore&nextpage=/extra/blogpage.html&BlogID=181

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A world without music would Bb.

I figured the 49 to be a faster tool for waste removal. I just bought one to try. At that price, it's hard to turn down. Just finished working a neck with my #50, and wished it worked faster. Hoping the 49 will fill the bill.

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Waddy

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Sound Clips of most of my guitars

One of them is more coarse, I can't remember which one off the top of my head (probably #49 now that I read Waddy's post). If I had to choose it'd be the coarse one, but it's nice to have both.

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Jonathan Kendall, Siloam Springs AR

Interesting. I went back to look at a picture of my rasp and it says Made in Brazil, never noticed it, always thought it was USA. I still like mine, though.

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Jonathan Kendall, Siloam Springs AR

The #50 I got at LeeValley 2 years ago is made in USA, and cuts really well.

Bob

Maybe an alternative would be the Japanese rasps, also for about $30 such as:
http://www.japanwoodworker.com/product. ... t_id=23042

Anyone tried one of these?

(I have the Japan Wood Worker Shinto saw rasp, and I really like it, but I have never tried the Auriou rasps.)

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Tim Allen
"Never hurry, never rest."

The 49 is the coarser one, but it does not cut nearly as smoothly as the 50, and in the end I find it actually more difficult or tiring to use. I probably haven't picked up the 49 in several years.

These are toys compared to the Aurou's. I use the 50 occasionally since getting the French ones, and probably only because it happens to be closer at hand.

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Jim Kirby
kirby@udel.edu

Filippo,

I don't have a clue what the numbers on these things mean at this point. The larger one is a 10 (big number) 0026 (small number),
and the somewhat shorter one is marked 11 - 0024. I like them both a lot. I maybe was too hard on the 50 - I do use it, and don't feel compelled to run and get the Auriou's when I am. The 49 is in a drawer bottom, though.

OK, looked at Tools for Working Wood. I have a 12" Grain 10 and a 10" Grain 11. The 12" 10 is my main material remover when carving necks.

A Grain 4 would be a pretty fine cut, am I correct?

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Jim Kirby
kirby@udel.edu