Auriou Rasps
Auriou rasps are hand made by highly skilled and knowledgeable toolmakers. Just 4 "stitchers", 3 grinders and 2 blacksmiths produce over 7500 various rasps and rifflers each year from a small factory in south western France.
Being genuinely hand made, Auriou's production capacity is a miserly 200-250 rasps each week. So if we are out of stock, please be patient. Auriou's workers are keepers of secrets that have been passed down for over 150 years. Auriou are unique in the range and quality of tools they offer.
Auriou rasps taper to allow them to be used more easily and to add to their versatility. They are stitched to the tip and to the edges. The roughing rasp, cabinet, modellers, flat and combo rasps are 'handed' for right and left handers. This is unique to Auriou.
Each individual cutting tooth is raised on a polished blank by the drop of a traditional rasp-makers hammer onto a special barleycorn pick. This gives a slighly random pattern to the cutting teeth resulting in a smoother finish to your work.
The finer grade rasps will take a highly skilled stitcher as much as 90 minutes to complete. The blank is then heat treated by a special process used only by Auriou. These tools are precision shaping tools.
Auriou rasps are used by Sam Maloof and his 'boys' in his Californian workshop, Konrad Sauer, Michael Hosaluk, Chris Schwarz, Brian Boggs, Mike Wensloff, Mark Sfirri, Rob Cosman, Jean Michel Escoulen and many more, too numerous to mention. |
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