Brit! I know you know!

I know I have seen one before ….............but where I can´t remember …. damm memmery :-)
if I don´t remember wrong then its a patternmakers file i think

Dennis

Banana peeler file , of course !

-- The pig caught under the fence is always the one doing all the squealing !

It reminds me of a home made Farriers rasp for making what’s called a Mustang Roll on a hoof.

We used something similar when I was a kid.

-- Improvise.... Adapt...... Overcome!

Prybar I think.

Dallas beat me to it. The English call it a Marlowe, I believe.

-- Gene 'The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.' G. K. Chesterton

Nice find Stevie. I don’t think it is a Farrier’s rasp as they aren’t usually bent. Here’s a link to a load of farrier's rasps so you can see what they look like.

I consulted the Nicholson Treatise on Files and Rasps and at first I though you’d found a bread rasp.

But it isn’t a bread rasp. I think it is simply called a bent riffler which was used to reach into irregular shaped cavities. Here’s a picture of a similar one.

I’m going to ask Jusfine to take a look as he keeps horses and if it is a farrier’s rasp, he will be able to confirm it.

-- Andy - Old Chinese proverb says: "If you think something can't be done, don't interrupt man who is doing it."

Andy,

You are a wealth of knowledge. Thank you for looking that up. It is defiantly not a rasp as I understand them. It has pretty fine teeth that would make me believe it was for metal working.

But lets see what Jusfine can add..

-- StevieP ~ Micheal Tompkins - you were not here on earth long but left a giant mark on us. RIP Brother

Nawh, you’re all wrong. It got left out in the sun and it almost melted. Just turn it over and put it back out in the sun.
(tongue in cheek)

Have had a lot of horses shod and trimmed, but never saw a rasp like that hanging around a farrier…

-- Randy "You are judged as much by the questions you ask as the answers you give..."

Not a farrier’s rasp. It looks like a riffler file/rasp to me.

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