NOS axe-sharpening files etc..

Remzy, glad your stuff got to you up there okay. I was going to scrap that half-hatchet but I thought as long as it was a flat-rate box I may as well throw it in there instead as it was no extra shipping for it's weight.

Sutured I will email you in the morning, Hak maybe you can pm me your email address. I still have a couple of boxes of 12" and 12" left, but they seem to be popular and I will run out soon.
 
Received my bundle today. Thanks! Nice to have some that bite like new unlike the drawer full of well used 60+ year-old files I've been using.
 
HAK911, just email me directly at sportspecial@hotmail.com


Gunscrounger, glad you got your files intact and you like them. One guy I sent files to said the PO had the box busted up pretty good by the time it got to his house.
 
Yes, they'll get good use. I've had that problem when using USPS Priority Mail boxes to send heavier items. Weak, cheap cardboard. I learned to use lots of internal packing and extra packing tape around all seams and edges. Nothing is harder on packages than shippers!
 
gben said:
Remzy, glad your stuff got to you up there okay. I was going to scrap that half-hatchet but I thought as long as it was a flat-rate box I may as well throw it in there instead as it was no extra shipping for it's weight.
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Hey dont minimize your gesture Ben, you could have just scrapped it thinking I hadnt paid for it and you had every right to, you deserve the praise for your unexpected generosity! :)

thanks again!
 
Remzy said:
Hey dont minimize your gesture Ben, you could have just scrapped it thinking I hadnt paid for it and you had every right to, you deserve the praise for your unexpected generosity! :)thanks again!
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I mainly try to think of the tools. Old tools are being scrapped at terrific rates, from the smallest up to large vehicles and machine tools. I have way too many tools here mainly because I feel if I had not saved most of them they would have ended up in the scrap-yard.

My house and garage are very small and stretched to their limits as far as free space goes. Today I am giving a kid a single-bit axe. I may have paid for the axe, but you can not put a price of friendship and the benefits of getting someone interested in history and hand-tools has for the society and ecosystem.
 
gben said:
I mainly try to think of the tools. Old tools are being scrapped at terrific rates, from the smallest up to large vehicles and machine tools. I have way too many tools here mainly because I feel if I had not saved most of them they would have ended up in the scrap-yard.

My house and garage are very small and stretched to their limits as far as free space goes. Today I am giving a kid a single-bit axe. I may have paid for the axe, but you can not put a price of friendship and the benefits of getting someone interested in history and hand-tools has for the society and ecosystem.
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Amen to that brother!
 
When I ship tools in USPS flat rate priority boxes I put all the tools in those USPS tyvec shipping envelopes first, sometimes in more than one envelope, before I wrap and put them in the box. Those envelopes are tough and they are free! Good way to ship lead ingots also, up to 70lbs. I then tape the entire outside of the box with COSTCO packing tape. Some of these boxes arrived round in shape instead of square, but everything arrived OK.
 
Old Axeman said:
When I ship tools in USPS flat rate priority boxes I put all the tools in those USPS tyvec shipping envelopes first, sometimes in more than one envelope, before I wrap and put them in the box. Those envelopes are tough and they are free! . . .
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"free", I don't think so. :)

Bob
 
Heres a picture of the first time I use my nickelson 14" mill bastard.

Boy does it cut well, the steel on that welland vale is super hard and it get cut like its not even hardened, this is amazing, ive been able to reprofile the edge that was severely damaged in a matter of about 10 minutes, i couldnt believe it...

Dont take my word for it and look at the before and after!
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Best buy of the year!
 
I could use some files, but no clue what I'm looking for. I'm just getting started. Any recommendations? Or do you have a mix and match box available?
 
Dan Sorrels I sent you an email a few minutes ago.

Remzy nice to see those files cut so good, they should cut better and last longer than the current Nicholson files which are made different places outside the USA. These files are probably as collectible as the axes we are sharpening with them.

Jimmy J, Any file that has a flat side is going to be able to sharpen an axe and do other work. The size and coarseness of the file is a matter of personal preference. It might be nice to have a large coarse file to rough things to shape quickly, then it could be followed up by a fine file to make it smooth and shiny. Some single-cut files might be able to fill both of those requirements for some people. I know that it is possible to get an axe very, very sharp using a file, sharp enough to cut paper if the file is fine enough and it's user has a good touch. I often follow up with a stone though just to make sure I have any burr off the edge. In the field I am sure one good file could do any sharpening needed very, very well. Hope this babbling helps.....
 
What do you have left? I be interested in the longer, wider Mill-Bastard style of file for final clean-up of the edge.

SJ
 
These are what I have left in larger files. Except for the ones marked Brass or Aluminum they would all be useful for sharpening axes or hatchets etc.. As long as it has a flat surface it will work. Half-round, square, flat or triangle cross-section is not going to make much difference. Most of these boxes are full and I do not want to break them up into sets. Files usually sell for $6-$10 each mostly depending on size. Most boxes have 6-12 files each in them, except for some reason the Simonds 12" smooth files come five to a box.

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Can't tell from the picture how many are in the square file box, depending on amount I'd be interested in a box of those and a box of black diamond mill bastards.
 
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