Simonds files any good. The european production is being moved from switzerland to italy. Building our first xpress home with simonds hoping it will be good on quality finishing coz alot of bad reviews about finishing and quality are on everywhere especially when we are building with xpress so on the first hand they gave us alot of colour option later on at last stage they said we dont have these colours choices coz u guys building with xpress and tried to trap us in between two. The grobet us is being moved to china. That file sharpening service might start to look a lot better with the alternative are new files that are dull out of the box.
Where to buy good files. 12 22 2013 0126 pm 19. I know this will be a big disappointment to many of our regular customers but your safety is paramount. So the quest for good files is going to be even tougher.
A few posts have been about files lately and i was going to post this then but believe it or not i bought a set of jewelers files from harbor freight about 12 in a red bag that have been really good for years. If you want quality files that arent too bad on the walleti recommend the simmonds brand of files particularly multi kut. I plan to anneal it and make a stock removal knife then heat treat but would like to know if anyone has any experience heat treating one of these files. Apparently simonds files are now made in honduras india and china.
I think mexican made nicholson is better than current simonds. There is a guy that sells files on ebay that bought the file sharpening equipment from simonds. Sadly what happened to simonds is worse that what what happened to nicholson the current quality is worthy of china or india. 12 for the nicholsons and simonds and im cheap so i bought the chinese file after talking to the desk guy who said the only difference is longevity.
Any good usa made files. A word of warning about simonds files files at this point i am not sure if any files are still made in the us. I know you do some small projects you might want to risk 399 on a set. My american made nicholsons have had it.
Well the chinese file is 3 bucks vs. All simonds files are made in honduras. Im sure the pferd files grobet files and other high end files are sweet to use but rather expensive. I have been to simonds website and didnt see anything about what kind of steel the files are made of.
I have a couple of nicholson smooth files for jointing my card scrapers but thats all i really know about files. I was wandering if any of you guys had any experience with this particular file. Latest news coach holiday day excursion update due to the present covid 19 situation we have taken the decision to cancel all coach holidays and day excursions until the end of june 2020. Personally no faster than im making knives right now i like the quality files like the simonds multi kut.