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What's-It Forum => What's-It Forum => Topic started by: cody6268 on March 22, 2016, 07:19:38 PM

Title: XLCR? File/Rasp
Post by: cody6268 on March 22, 2016, 07:19:38 PM

This evening, as I was feeding sheep, I noticed this very large file/rasp in the 100 year old barn, so I brought it to my workshop in the basement, and cleaned the gunk off it, which is animal wound spray (which was stored on the same shelf) which isn't coming off no matter how hard I scrub with an old toothbrush.     I can only make out a partial makers stamp--a leftward pointing arrow with the letters XLCR written on the shaft (the shaft going through the center of those letters), with a flight/feathers with 11 chevrons and the words "TRADE" and "MARK" directly above and below, respectively .  It's about 13 or 14 inches in length, according to a crappy ruler stamped on my Leatherman (my carpenter's rule was in my upstairs toolbox at the time).   It's two sided, with what appears to be a crosshatched metal file on one side, and a coarse wood rasp on the other.

In all honesty, I don't know where it came from.  It may have been some of the stuff that was stored in the barn that came off the adjacent property ten years ago, or some stuff that's been in the barn long before my grandparents moved here in 1969.  In fact, my grandfather didn't even know it was down there.   

An online search only brought up a bunch of crap related to computer jargon when I typed in what I got off the file.   


(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1622/25901840811_85ab581bc6_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/FsRGSg)Photo0519 (https://flic.kr/p/FsRGSg) by cody6268 (https://www.flickr.com/photos/91575614@N04/), on Flickr


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Title: Re: XLCR? File/Rasp
Post by: mikeswrenches on March 22, 2016, 07:29:10 PM

I can't help with who made it, but I think(always dangerous at my age), that they are called a "four in hand".  I think they have four different cutting surfaces.

Mike

Title: Re: XLCR? File/Rasp
Post by: wvtools on March 22, 2016, 09:57:17 PM

The four in hand had smaller cutting teeth.  They were made by several companies, and were originally for shaping shoe lasts.  That one looks like a horse hoof rasp/file, which is typically larger with larger teeth.

Title: Re: XLCR? File/Rasp
Post by: Aunt Phil on March 22, 2016, 11:40:24 PM

Hoof rasp
8 cutting surfaces
Pipe weldors love them for slag removal.