Big Gouge, Ash and Farrier's Rasp

I’m not sure I’ve seen a concaved farriers rasp like that. That should work well.

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It wasn’t concave when I started. Heat and impact have a wonderful result! It was a fun little project.

-- "Man's ingenuity has outrun his intelligence" (Joseph Wood Krutch)

now it makes more sense. I’d be interested to know how you bent it.

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I cheated. I used what is normally a top shaping tool and put it in a vice. It was the finished radius of the gouge. I used another top tool, or shaping tool. It was about the same radius only convex and is made to be hit with a hammer. The two tools shape the red hot metal in between. You need a striker or a really good holder to use this technique. The bevel was hand filed with the steel still hot. The file seems to cut better when the steel is hot.
BTKS

-- "Man's ingenuity has outrun his intelligence" (Joseph Wood Krutch)

BTKS,
Thanks for the comment. I really like a 14” handle on turning tools. I think it will give me much better control, but since I just started I have a lot to learn.

Like your gouge. Now I know what to do with my old hoof rasps.

-- Stormy: Sometimes the wood just tells you what it wants to be.

Stormy,
I finally got something out of having horses. It may be worn out shoes and rasps but it’s what I can use. Not to mention the smiles on my wife’s and daughters’ faces.
Thanks for looking.

-- "Man's ingenuity has outrun his intelligence" (Joseph Wood Krutch)

like it I made a big knife out of one

-- Nimkee** Joe

Very nice looking chisel, and thank you for the explanation of the shaping process, I have messed around a
little with knife and gouge making, enough to realize that you must have a very well equipped blacksmith
shop to have these shaping tools. Thank you for sharing, and I hope meeting has some good trades for you.

-- As ever, Gus-the 74 yr young apprentice carpenter

Nice! I love making my own tools and have always wanted to try something like that, but lacking the necessary blacksmithing setup (not to mention knowledge), it has thus eluded me.

I don’t do much carving, but your tool there could easily have been made for woodturning with an outside bevel and a longer handle. Thanks for sharing.

-- -=Pride is not a sin=-

That’s one big ash gouge! ;)

-- My dad and I built a 65 chev pick up.I killed trannys in that thing for some reason-Hog