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Is there such a thing as a right-angled file?

Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 1:47 pm
by Dave Bagwill
Just a smallish, L-shaped tool with a file edge on the outside edges?

Re: Is there such a thing as a right-angled file?

Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 2:01 pm
by Robert Hosmer
What job?

Re: Is there such a thing as a right-angled file?

Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 5:22 pm
by Dave Bagwill
Various little jobs, cleaning out rabbets mainly.

Re: Is there such a thing as a right-angled file?

Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 6:33 pm
by Robert Hosmer
I haven't come across the shape about which you're asking, though that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

Hand files and pillar files have safe edges, allowing you to remove material from one surface while having the file registered to an adjacent surface.

Re: Is there such a thing as a right-angled file?

Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 8:40 am
by ken cierp
These guys may have something

http://www.grobetusa.com/files/index.html