Paul Pedersen said:
>
> A couple of years ago at a flea market I came across a box full of  new
> rasps being sold for 3$ apiece.  I picked one up and it said
> Nicholson 49 right on it.  But : the file was very lightweight (and
> thin) and didn't look or feel right somehow.

Ooops. The Nicholsons are thin and light compared to their cheaper
brethren. Another give-away is the pattern of the teeth - there is none.
The reason they are so expensive is that the teeth are hand-cut in a
random pattern (very hard to achieve) to prevent gouging. An "ordinary"
rasp has a machine-made diagonal pattern to the teeth like a file. Not so
with these.

Steve - another Kokomo galoot