Be always happy with excellent rasping.
This is a tool that a friend (let’s call him Josh Ablett) recommended to me the other day. I wasn’t in the market for a rasp but I was trying to be agreeable so I ordered it from Amazon.
It turned out to be a premium saw-rasp combined program. It’s made of ten blades similar to hacksaw blades stacked side-by-side. They’re not just stacked though, the eight blades in the middle are zig-zag bent so that the whole assembly comes out looking sort of waffle-cut, or like a tire tread or the sole of a shoe.
The whole cutting surface is double-sided also, with finer teeth more like a hacksaw on one side and larger teeth on the other. The instructions say not to worry about rasping right over a nail head, so either they want you to ruin it and buy another one or I’m not so far off with my comparing the blades to hacksaw blades.
I don’t even own any other rasp so I’m not so up on the rasping arts in general, but this is a nicely built tool that seems like it might get a person out of (or into) a scrape when the time comes.
I used Google translate to translate the many markings in Japanese on the package. The translate would fluctuate a little as I moved the camera around, sometimes making more sense and sometimes less, but reading through the different iterations of translation attempts I could very easily get a sense of what the package was trying to tell me and it was good, specific information. I always have respect for equipment made in Japan so the Made In Japan badge and the package covered with Japanese writing added to the enjoyment for me.
I look forward to a time when a rasp is just the thing I need and I actually remember I own this one in time to use it before I accidentally buy a plain old rasp. There’s something about the idea of ten saw blades stacked together that makes me feel like saying “You got the shotgun.” when I pick it up.
