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05-18-2017, 06:19 AM
I have the Dragon rasps from Stew-Mac and they work fine in cherry.  Delivery was super fast.  I turned the handles from scrap cherry cut-offs.  Win-win for me...
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05-18-2017, 08:14 AM
(05-17-2017, 09:53 AM)AHill Wrote: Slav told me something years ago that he learned while an apprentice.  Let your cheaper, coarse rasps do the heavy work.  Let the more expensive, fine rasps do the finish work.  The thing to watch for with some of the cheaper rasps that leave tracks is to quit sooner than with a fine rasp, since you risk taking too much off with the fine rasp to clean up the deeper tracks left behind from a cheaper coarse rasp.

Makes total sense. Maybe I should have given that a try. I guess I can always reorder.
Jason

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