Nicholson Cantsaw Files

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Are these now made in Mexico? I know the bastard files are, but I found these cantsaw files at a used/junk store Made in Canada for a few dollars.

And will they work just as well on an axe?
 
Yea, I vote for saving them for what they were meant for , sharpening saws, or trade them to me for some axe-sharpening files. I recently ended up with seven-hundred NOS USA-made Nicholson and Simonds files, so I certainly have something here that would be much better for sharpening axes than those can files.

Currently Nicholson files are not made in the USA, they are imported from thirdish-world countries. Usually the file will have it's country of origin stamped on it somewhere.
 
I was just thinking that since I can get 5 or more for the price of one new file I might as well try it. And also rather than carrying two files in the woods.

I can pick one up for you if you want to trade for a good US/Canada axe file. I am in Canada though so I don't know what shipping is like for a file.
 
Shipping between Canada and the USA usually makes sending one or two dollar items impractical. If the files are USA made then they are worth something, but still not worth shipping just one. A standard nicholson cant file has two 30 degree and one 120 degree corner.

There was a few other saw files by nicholson too though. One similar to the cant file but it only had teeth on one side and the other sides were smooth, called a "safe back" so you did not screw up what you were not filing. They were basically a non-tapered barrette file.

There were also files marked "crosscut", specifically for sharpening crosscut saws of course which had a slender teardrop cross-section.

There were slim and extra-slim taper three-sided files for general hand-saw sharpening and non-tapered "blunt" files that were supposed to be for sharpening large band-saw blades.

I have all these types of files already, the only ones I might be interested in would be safe-back non-tapered files, but again just one would not be worth the shipping cost, it would have to be a box of six or twelve so the cost of shipping per file would be as low as possible.
 
gben said:
Shipping between Canada and the USA usually makes sending one or two dollar items impractical. If the files are USA made then they are worth something, but still not worth shipping just one. A standard nicholson cant file has two 30 degree and one 120 degree corner.

There was a few other saw files by nicholson too though. One similar to the cant file but it only had teeth on one side and the other sides were smooth, called a "safe back" so you did not screw up what you were not filing. They were basically a non-tapered barrette file.

There were also files marked "crosscut", specifically for sharpening crosscut saws of course which had a slender teardrop cross-section.

There were slim and extra-slim taper three-sided files for general hand-saw sharpening and non-tapered "blunt" files that were supposed to be for sharpening large band-saw blades.

I have all these types of files already, the only ones I might be interested in would be safe-back non-tapered files, but again just one would not be worth the shipping cost, it would have to be a box of six or twelve so the cost of shipping per file would be as low as possible.
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I have a small 48 page booklet titled 'File Filosophy' by Nicholson File Company Port Hope Ontario 1950 that actually shows and describes some of these!
 
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