Rasp

The grater is a tool for machining, especially wood. The rasp teeth ( strokes ) of the fabricated from hardened steel rasp protruding from the sheet. Therefore, tear at the cutting movement of wood chips from the material. The remaining deep traces in the surface can be smoothed, for example, with a file on. Due to the significant larger teeth rasp contributes substantially more material than from a file.

Rasps are also used in sculpture for the processing of soft rocks such as soapstone, alabaster, limestone or marble. Due to the high wear of conventional rasps in the processing of medium-hard rocks such as limestone and rasps are available in which the teeth are not stamped into the rasp, but are formed by applied to the carbide rasp splitter.

Furthermore, particularly coarse rasps of farriers in the care of animal hooves are used.

Rasps without handle ( wooden or plastic handle ), but with one in the middle, between two trained as rasps ends, trained for hand-in metal handle, referred to ripple or Bildhauerraspeln.

For body care, there are Hornhautraspeln and -files.

Trimming with the rasp

Riffelraspeln with different shapes