My latest rescue project, a broken cobblers peg rasp

[Kfd518]

I was searching eBay for “cobblers tools” as all of us are known to do once in a while. Well lo and behold pops up an adjustable peg rasp. However, it has a broken ear

Well I made a couple of offers and it became mine.
It had a nail holding the head on as a rivet, and of course the broken ear.

I removed the nail “rivet” and dropped the head and handle into some evaporust over night. After 20’sh hours it was spotless. I can now see its cast steel as it’s stamped on the side.
Thought about tig welding it but decided to braze it.
After brazing and two new rivets from 1/8” 6010 and some trial fitting before setting the heads on the new rivets, it works great.
Now I just need to sharpen the file head.

[kemitchell]

Interesting. Think it was designed to be mounted on top of a pole of some kind?

[Kfd518]

I have seen them mounted in regular wood handle or on a post mount. I first saw it at the Polk boot shop in Mason Tx. The tilting head works quite well reaching up into boots to get the shank pegs. Lisa sells a modern version.

I found one other before that was in good shape. I figured I would attempt to salvage this one.