Possible record and thanks Joel

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William Duffield, on the Cohansey

>Yeah, Joel's service is great. The last order I placed with him landed on my back porch well under 24 hours after I hung up the phone. Of course, NJ is a bit closer to NY than California, so YMMV.

Re: Possible record and thanks Joel

bob m

>Agreed. Very quick shipping, knowledgeable and helpful staff and great tools!

Bob

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Bill Murphy/Reading, PA.

>So, what did you order?

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Wiley Horne--Glendora CA

>Hi Bill,

Three items:

--Auriou Modeller's Rasp...14 grain, 200mm, left handed

--Multiple point diamond dresser for grindstones.

--Three Cherries card scraper

Joel special ordered these left-handed Auriou's for nuts like me. And yeah, there is a difference which you can feel, and see (I looked). The diamond point dresser will be very welcome as I am a big fan of hollow grinding chisel and plane blades. The card scraper was a straight impulse item.

Congratulations on the Eagles!

Wiley

Left Handed Rasp?

Bill Murphy/Reading,PA.

>Wiley,

That makes sense. They must cut down and to the left? Being right handed, I never thought about that.

Three Cherries scraper, is that the left handed version of the Two Cherries scraper? LOL

Bill

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Wiley Horne--Glendora CA

>Bill,

You got me chuckling. There's a lot of left-handed folks using rasps and doing just fine. So it's not that big a deal.

But. If you're gonna pay for hand made, you may as well get the benefit of it. The worker hand-stitching a rasp doesn't care if they angle the teeth one way or the other, so they do it to suit the customer. They mark the left-handed ones 'G', for 'gauche'. Clark & Williams is another example--when Bill Clark makes the mortise for the tote on a jointer or trying plane, he will offset it a bit one way or the other according to whether the user is left- or right-handed. Larry Williams will make your hollows and rounds right or left handed. Konrad Sauer makes his infill totes to fit your hand.

Back to the rasps. I have right-handed Auriou's. They work just fine if I change the angle of attack. For example, a left-handed Grain 13 held in a natural skew (Joel illustrates this on his site) cuts a smooth surface. A right-handed Grain 13 held the same way will cut deep parallel furrows--I need to hold it unskewed to get the correct action. So it ain't that big a deal, but if both L and R are offered, may as well get the best one.

The Three Cherries is me having a senior moment. CRS is my other all-purpose excuse, but doesn't fit as well here.

Wiley

Color me Gauche too Wiley

Dave Anderson Chester, NH

>That Joel fella got some of my bucks for an 8" left handed modelers rasp and a flat rasp on Monday afternoon. I'm sure interested to see how well they work. I'm just might see them when I get home tonite if the snow doesn't slow deliveries.

I got ripped! :)

Roger Nixon

>My order took about 3 days! Now I did place it on a Sunday over the 'net and opted for the cheap bas.. er economical, yeah that's it, economical shipping.

Seriously, the order was filled quickly and accurately and arrived well on schedule.

Re: Color me Gauche too Wiley

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>Do I remember right that the postal credo mentions rain, sleet, and dark of night, but cleverly leaves snow off the list of things that don't slow them down?

Re: Left Handed Rasp?--Long

William Duffield, on the Cohansey

>After discussing these implements of destruction last night on the Hand Tool Chat, and then reading joel's explanation of rasp-handedness, I gotten to thinking about my mostly conquered dyslexia and what I've had to learn, mostly subconsciously, to effectively use some of my rasps and files. And then I thought about the myriad workbenches I have used, some with left and some with right shoulder vises. And then, there are the L-N #140 temptations. Now I find myself on the horns of yet another dilemma: Were I to add an Auriou gauch� rasp to my arsenal, would I have to retrain myself to make effective use of it? Would I have to dispose of all my desterously cut files. Would I make better use of a straight or a curved modelmaker's rasp? Is the proverbial Dilemma beastie horned with a pair of these curved weapons, one dexter and one sinister?

Stop!!! I can't take any more of this! I still don't have all the planes I really need. I don't have all the chisels, or all the carving gouges, or all the braces, or the marking gauges, or even the chisels, or the saws, or the planes, or even........

I think I'm going to go buy a bigger routah and some more bits. That should cure me.

Re: Color me Gauche too Wiley

Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX

>Nah, snow was included, too; but that was before global warming started dumping huge piles of it. :)

Pam