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14th June 2012, 07:28 PM #1Novice
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Tool for flute making
dear Sirs,
I'm interested in recorder (flute) making and for this I would need a curved tool like the one in the attached pictures. It's a traditional hand-tool, like a scraper used to scrape the recorder winday. It looks like a broach (it's not a file, it has teeth), it cuts by pulling and not by pushing and it has a curved section. Maybe you have an idea how to make this, or even some of you could make it ...thank you very much for any help you could give me. Greetings from Italy
Lorenzo
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23rd June 2012, 03:43 AM #2
there was a post a while back from a family owned business that made rasps and files
quite interesting to watch who they made them (Utube) , i'll see if i can find the post
https://www.woodworkforums.com/f11/ha...-rasps-136172/
they custom make them as wellhow come a 10mm peg dont fit in a 10mm hole
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27th June 2012, 02:14 AM #3
It would be a simple enough tool to make but making it well would be a different story. Start with tool steel (a old quality wood chisel would do) and heat it red then allow it to cool slowly (to soften it) then cut it to the shape you want. The next bit is easy enough as all you have to do is heat it to about 800 degrees C or the point where a magnet will no longer stick to it then quench it in cold clean water. This will harden it (doing it without warping it may be difficult). It will then be very hard but brittle and needs to be tempered by heating again a quenching again but at lower temperatures. The temperatures needed vary for different steel alloys that is the tricky part but you may end up with a sufficient tool for your purpose. Google "Hardening and tempering" of tool steel. You will then need to sharpen it once you have made it. Good luck.
Jim
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29th June 2012, 08:44 AM #4Intermediate Member
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