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<blockquote data-quote="shortgrass" data-source="post: 2011492" data-attributes="member: 24284"><p>Mine are shop made. I cut the 'rat tail' off with an abrasive chop saw, and the rest of the file will fit cross corner in my heat treat oven. After annealed, I put 1 x 4s in the vise jaws of my horizontal band saw and cut it into 2"+ long pieces. I hold the pieces in a nylon, "emergency" collet to face 'um and drill & tap. Then re-heat treat. Dastra Woodscrew used to make similar cutters. Those were made with hand cut teeth (with a graver) like a pattern makers file/rasp. My Dastra tools dulled-up after many years of using them, and the Bastard cut 16" rat tail files came to mind. I still have my Dastra barrel channel tools and will send them off to Boggs Tool along with the USA Made Nicholson #49 Pattern Makers files for sharpening. Many of my specialty chisels and scrapers ae shop made, also. "Necessity is the Mother of Invention". These aren't 'inventions', just another way around a problem. As a working gunsmith, I have all the needed equipment to make what I need (when I have time!). This afternoon, after I finish a thread& chamber job on a Hart bbl., I'll make a new swedging point for my 1911 plunger tube crimping tool. I don't care for the way the 'store bought' one works. I tried the grease and chalk and then Jarrows Inletting Black/Gold. I much prefer the inletting black.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="shortgrass, post: 2011492, member: 24284"] Mine are shop made. I cut the 'rat tail' off with an abrasive chop saw, and the rest of the file will fit cross corner in my heat treat oven. After annealed, I put 1 x 4s in the vise jaws of my horizontal band saw and cut it into 2"+ long pieces. I hold the pieces in a nylon, "emergency" collet to face 'um and drill & tap. Then re-heat treat. Dastra Woodscrew used to make similar cutters. Those were made with hand cut teeth (with a graver) like a pattern makers file/rasp. My Dastra tools dulled-up after many years of using them, and the Bastard cut 16" rat tail files came to mind. I still have my Dastra barrel channel tools and will send them off to Boggs Tool along with the USA Made Nicholson #49 Pattern Makers files for sharpening. Many of my specialty chisels and scrapers ae shop made, also. "Necessity is the Mother of Invention". These aren't 'inventions', just another way around a problem. As a working gunsmith, I have all the needed equipment to make what I need (when I have time!). This afternoon, after I finish a thread& chamber job on a Hart bbl., I'll make a new swedging point for my 1911 plunger tube crimping tool. I don't care for the way the 'store bought' one works. I tried the grease and chalk and then Jarrows Inletting Black/Gold. I much prefer the inletting black. [/QUOTE]
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