"Manticore" Series Abrasive File

[FortyTwoBlades]

Just got these babies ready for market. Done in the 80/20 blend of black and green 60-grit silicon carbide that made the bench stone so effective, but in a Carborundum Co. pattern No.188 oval bar with file-like grooving. Doesn't blunt from use on rusty or dirty tools, and even bites into vintage axe bits that are too hard to file. Cuts on both push and pull strokes, too. A small number of other companies produce stones in this pattern, but all in "cheap" blends that aren't really optimized for the intended usage. The use of the hyper-aggressive Manticore blend really "makes" the stone, in my opinion.

The gem shown with it is made of the self-same material, but is more like a 1-grit.

 

[maximus83]

Hey Ben, looks cool. Can you contrast this with the Bull Thistle scythe stones, what you see as the ideal range of applications for each of them and how they differ?

 

[FortyTwoBlades]

The Manticore abrasive file is much coarser and more aggressive. The Bull Thistle is for setting a toothy slicing scratch pattern on blades, with secondary functions being light to moderate ding/roll removal, and light bevel shaping, but they aren't intended for the kind of stock removal that the Manticore abrasive file is for.

 

[gunfixrjoe]

I really like the look of that.