Roughing gouge

Hello!
I present here a roughing gouge homemade made ​​in an old metal file.
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Tournage CP : b. Fabrication d'une gouge de dégrossissement

Thanks again Patrick! We added this one to our Metalworking and Woodworking categories, and of course to your homemade tools page: Patrick's Homemade Tools. Your receipt:

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Did you soften the file? There have been cases of tools made from (especially long ones like this) shattering into sharp shards. Given the forces that come into play with a roughing gouge, I'd want the metal to be quite different than in an unchanged file.

:D Hello bookmatch,
That the steel is not too hard, I soaked in part. This file now has the same consistency as HSS4. :D