Iwasaki Files
Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2019 10:24 pm
I purchased a couple of Iwasaki files a gew years ago when some guys on a wood working site were rhapsodizing about them.
In the interim, I found them to be not very usedul for anything that I tried in terms of wood working. They seemed to catch and snag on anything I tried them on.
A couple of days ago, after reading the thread here about acrylic v. ebonite, I dug them out to try with my stem holding rig on my lathe.
To my very pleasant surprise, they work like a champ to remove material, either acrylic or ebonote.
The secret is to push without much down ward pressure.
The most useful is a flat isoceles shaped one called a fine float for which I paid >$50.( which also looks like a piece of junk)
These things cut better than the vulcrylic files on acrylic.
DocAitch
In the interim, I found them to be not very usedul for anything that I tried in terms of wood working. They seemed to catch and snag on anything I tried them on.
A couple of days ago, after reading the thread here about acrylic v. ebonite, I dug them out to try with my stem holding rig on my lathe.
To my very pleasant surprise, they work like a champ to remove material, either acrylic or ebonote.
The secret is to push without much down ward pressure.
The most useful is a flat isoceles shaped one called a fine float for which I paid >$50.( which also looks like a piece of junk)
These things cut better than the vulcrylic files on acrylic.
DocAitch