I sent my good rasps to Boggs Tools to be resharpened, Boggs came highly recommended by the gun building clan.
These were my Nicholson #49 and 50 pattern makers rasps, high dollar stuff. I didn’t know how dull my #49 was until I picked up a good deal on a new #50 off ebay and it out-cut my coarser #49 by a long shot. I guess making 145 bows with a file will dull it somewhat but I didn’t realize how much.
I got the sharpened files back today, man what a difference, better than new.
They gave me one free sharpening as a new customer so it cost me $8 to get the files sharpened. Shipping was $11, which was a little steep but much better than paying $50 for a new file. The new ones are made in Brazil now and are not near the quality of my old American made ones.
I wish I had sent them a few more of my dull metal working files, they do good work.