Auriou Rasps - Back in Business

[WoodWrangler]

As of this week, the company is back and the Auriou rasps are available. Figured some of you would want to know about this ...

http://www.forge-de-saint-juery.com/

 

[nelsone]

Glad to here they are back up and running. I may have to skip over the Nicholson's when I go for a good rasp!

 

[Travis Porter]

Item for my Christmas list!!

 

[WoodWrangler]

Unfortunately, with the value of the dollar and cost of doing business, they ain't cheap!

 

[MikeH]

Thanks for the link Jeremy. There's nothing like a fine tool made painstakingly by hand. Can you imaging stitching all those teeth on a single file? Especially the finer ones. What a craft! :notworthy: I for one would go crosseyed real quick.

 

[Tarhead]

This is good news! I met the owner at a handtool show last year right before they closed down. Very nice guy and felt bad things fell apart for him while he was here. I wonder how the poor souls who paid $600-$700 a piece on Ebay for a $70 rasp feel about this? Ringling had it right I guess. Every minute.

 

[froglips]

Sure is good news! Maybe someday I'll stop using my teeth to rasp with

Anyone heard the story of the reopening? The juicy gossip part of the story?

Facts I know are they had a labor issue (strike), shut down, then reopened somewhere else with some of the key employees and the original hammer/forge.

Jim