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Hello,
i think it's an old handstitched rasp. The grain#5 is not the Auriou or Liogier scale.
It's difficult with a picture but i think about a cabinet maker rasp 8" grain#11 or 12 by Liogier....

Very impressive result Mark ! Love it. Some could even say it is unfair that it seems so easy for you to reach this on the first attempt. :U





Yes, the stone rifflers differ from the wood...

Some years ago Nicholson has moved his rasp production from USA to Latin America. Doing so, many say that the Nicholson #49 rasp has lost its revered quality, hence they ask me what I could do...

BobL & RedShirtGuy : thank your guys for the ideas on how to organize a competition.
Otherwise, I have emailed to Warren Murphy, the curator of the competition « Out of the Woods » organized by the...

Thank you for the hint. Could you please give the names of such competitions for younger woodworkers please ?

All my life I have received countless grateful thanks, congratulations or even gifts from the woodworker communities around the world, and this is what has been and is still doing my job a daily...

I fully agree with what has wrote switt775.

Regarding the name, "FD" (d superscript) might be the abbreviation of "Ferdinand", a fairly commun first name by that time in France.

"CLAUD III" is...

An US professional guitar maker, Daniel Roberts, for who I did some rasps and ended up being a friend, has made a video on his techniques to shape a guitar neck.
I thought some of you may enjoy it....

Even though I claim to produce the best rasps, I am surely not the best rasp-user. :U
But still I will try answer your question by a question : how can you do differently than dragging backwards...

I am often asked to explain how to properly use a rasp.
Rather than a long and tedious speech, I had the idea to film as an example a cabinetmaker working near my workshop, doing a "deer foot" for...

I produced quite some rasps lately for Australian woodworkers, thanks to the great work of organization of FenceFurniture.
Maybe time has come for me to look up from my daily work and open my ears...

Yes (of course) I still produce it ... but (of course) I still didn't find the time to had it to the webstore... If you want one, you can simply order a 200 mm (regular) flat rasp and send me an...

Wait, there may be a misunderstanding due to my poor english. The rasp in the above picture is NOT the new model I try to develop. (It is a special Flat rasps I developped a couple of years ago for...

Shoud be OK now. Isn't it ?

You can download 3 short videos at this FTP server (you have to click on "Telecharger ce fichier").

The first video called "Rabots noisettes" just show the plane that is inspiring the process.
...

Thanks for your kind words.

Some times ago, an association of French Luthiers have asked me do produce this special rasps, and since then it has proven to be well appreciated amongst European...

Being French, maybe it's easier for me to understand what's in the website.

They say that all the furnitures shown on the website are at the scale of 1/4 of the real one (1/4 for the sizes means...

Yes this is exactly what I thought when I saw that picture. One can see that all these imperfections on the edges of the ridges probably come from two defects in the production process :

- the...

One last argument, so obvious that I've never thought about it before. If acids can sharpen files, why files makers who dedicate their time and efforts to produce the sharpest possible files, do...

Hello Luthiers from the other side of the world.

I am a hand stitched rasps maker, not totally unknown from luthiers across Europe but since most if not all of you have no idea of what I do,...

I've posted again on Youtube the video showing the big machines cutting files, I hope it'll work better this time :
Cutting - YouTube

As far as I know (but always willing to learn some more), there are two ways to produce files (apart of milled teeth files of course) :

- the technique called "cuting" where a punch hit the flat...

Impressive job, FF :2tsup:

Yes, this is precisely what I mean (my level of english can be very frustrating sometimes :~) : the acid treatments, like all other methods of cleaning, will make the...

I live in an area of France where there used to be around 200 files and rasp workshops during the first part of XXth century. And my grandfather taught me a « game » that these guys were doing back...

Yes exactly.:2tsup:

For those of you who are interested in having some information about files, I am participating to this thread :

https://www.woodworkforums.com/f65/metal-files-101-a-141639/index6.html#post1394690

Since I’m a member of this forum, I have received quite some questions about files, and doing so I’ve realised some basic things are not so clear for everybody. Those of you who are already familiar...

:C What a heartbreaking loss :C We could (should ?) have won.

Fortunately the Kiwis take a communicative and comforting joy out of this RWC final victory. In the end, it is the best team of the...

Here, I could maybe be of some help, although this just another opinion.

A "starter pack" could be :

- the #1 model is clearly a Cabinet Makers rasp, I would pick a 10" long with quite a coarse...

Bravo Cadel Evans !

The music is "The Great Sarabande" from Haendel.

I guess woodworkers from the Sculpting section, Modelling section and Marquetry section should be interested too.

I have created for your community the following Discount Codes :

Star5 : 5%...

We use ash, a very comun wood in France.

Do you want me to create a special discount code for your community for group orders ?

We call this the chisel used to kick up the teeth a "grain of barley" because of its shape. A rasp has on average 6.000 teeth (actually between 2.000 and 10.000, depending on length and mostly on...

I guess a Modeller rasp of 7" (175mm) grain # 13 could be a good compromise for these different uses.

As regards delivering Australia, I have never did so far, but no problem to try.

Thanks a lot to all for these very kind messages. My family know-how has no value unless there is some craftmen around the world able to appreciate this quality.
I am willing to share and exchange...

:? Let's try again :


YouTube - ‪Râpe à bois piquée main LIOGIER Hand-stitched wood rasp‬‏

For my first message, by way of introduction, here is a short video showing what I do :


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pzK2Ei19t4