rasp set for shaping and smoothing

Ideal for beginners! For working soft stone such as alabaster, soapstone, soft marble, limestone and serpentine.

The set consists of:

1 riffler rasp-file with a roughly beaten rasp side for shaping and a file side for smoothing, total length 25 cm.
1 model rasp with one round and one flat side, total length 22 cm
1 rasp-file with semi-circular rasp body with one rasp side and one file side, total length 20 cm

Care of the rasps:

We recommend using a file brush to clean the rasps.

Rasps cannot be resharpened. In order to maintain the sharpness of your rasps for as long as possible, we recommend that you do not use the rasps for work on stones containing quartz, such as sandstone. Some serpentine and soapstones may also contain quartz. As quartz is harder than steel, the rasp surfaces are abraded and become blunt very quickly. Carbide or diamond rasps are therefore much more suitable for quartz-containing stones.

If you use rasps in wood carving, they usually remain sharp for much longer than when used in stone carving. As optimally sharp tools are essential for wood carving, we recommend that you no longer use rasps that have already been used on stone for wood carving. It is highly unlikely that you will achieve satisfactory results there. Conversely, use is generally less problematic.