This is the first time I've seen one of these I believe and the man who sold it to me said it was a rasp. It has like hacksaw blades on both sides, but one side the teeth are very fine.

looks like a tiny rug beater

I have seen roughing rasps like this that look like they are made out of laminated hack saw blades.

Yes its a rasp
They sold these in the 70's. All the great mail order catalogs had them.
  They really are laminated hacksaw blades.
yours Scott

Coool, must not have been very popular or they wore out easy.

Still made today - one version the Shinto Rasp can be found at: http://raysatlatls.com/2011/02/tools-for-making-atlatls-the-shinto-rasp-and-horseshoe-file/

Great info thanks. I'm gonna see how well it works.

Yes, an interesting design, fairly effective but I got rid of the one I found because I found I don't need a flat rasp as much as a half-round.  Flat work I can do with a block plane.

They worked great for me, got mine in the 70's, used it for cutting down Bondo,  Cuts fast, didn't clog up, but for ruff cuts as it leaves cut lines.

Quote from: oldtools on December 16, 2012, 03:49:01 PM
They worked great for me, got mine in the 70's, used it for cutting down Bondo,  Cuts fast, didn't clog up, but for ruff cuts as it leaves cut lines.

Exactly

Lee Valley Tools sells one. http://www.leevalley.com/en/wood/page.aspx?p=65692&cat=1,42524