small rasp

Hand-cut steel rasp. Fine cut, length 15 cm. For marble, wood, soft stone.

Picture above shape 4, picture below shape 5.

MILANI rasps are of particularly high quality: hand-cut, each rasp is a unique piece from the small traditional forge of Renzo MILANI from Pietrasanta in the Apuan Alps, one of the Italian marble quarrying regions. The rasps are particularly suitable for working marble, wood and soft stone.

MILANI rasps are forged from extremely pure steel and optimally hardened. All of the notches are thoroughly cut by hand and arranged very carefully. The hardness of the steel, the uniform shape of the steel body and the high number of notches, their regular arrangement and the depth of the cut are what make the rasps so special.

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 hand-cut rasps for as long as possible, we recommend that you do not use the rasps for work on quartz-containing stones, 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 woodcarving in particular, we recommend that you no longer use rasps for woodcarving that have already been used on stone. It is highly unlikely that you will achieve satisfactory results there. Conversely, use is generally less problematic.