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A few weeks ago I was teaching my Grandson how to use a Ferro rod and scrape magnesium. I happen to have my 5011 with me and I had put a 90° spine on it. So that's what we used. During that process i got an idea and this is it.

I had picked up a box full of rusty files at a yard sale for cheap cheap so I put one of them to use.

I came across a pallet at work that actually had a big chunk of lighter pine as a stringer???? So of course I salvaged that. I thought it would be kinda cool to have a lighter pine handle on a striker.

I step drilled the pine handle to fit the rat tail on the file.

Time to work the handle down on the sander.

Instead of wearing the teeth off of my band saw I just put the file at the length I wanted in the vise and hit it with a soft face hammer. Nice straight break that's going to get reshaped anyways.
Ground a scraper/chisel on the end and 90° on one side of the file.

Drilled a lanyard hole and burned the pine a bit with the heat gun. Unfortunately I left my epoxy at the house so I will glue it later. The scraper works great for larger chunks of magnesium and the file makes a nice dust. Both the chisel and the 90° threw tons of sparks.

It took me longer to post it than it did for the project lol

I had picked up a box full of rusty files at a yard sale for cheap cheap so I put one of them to use.

I came across a pallet at work that actually had a big chunk of lighter pine as a stringer???? So of course I salvaged that. I thought it would be kinda cool to have a lighter pine handle on a striker.

I step drilled the pine handle to fit the rat tail on the file.

Time to work the handle down on the sander.

Instead of wearing the teeth off of my band saw I just put the file at the length I wanted in the vise and hit it with a soft face hammer. Nice straight break that's going to get reshaped anyways.

Ground a scraper/chisel on the end and 90° on one side of the file.

Drilled a lanyard hole and burned the pine a bit with the heat gun. Unfortunately I left my epoxy at the house so I will glue it later. The scraper works great for larger chunks of magnesium and the file makes a nice dust. Both the chisel and the 90° threw tons of sparks.

It took me longer to post it than it did for the project lol
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