Nolvex Barrel rasp??

[Larry McGarrah]

This rasp has NOLVEX 612 on the wooden handle and was sold as a barrel rasp. Does anyone know anything about Nolvex and what this rasp would have been used for?

http://s116.photobucket.com/albums/o28/biomed1/?action=view&current=nolvex1.jpg

http://s116.photobucket.com/albums/o28/biomed1/?action=view&current=nolvex2.jpg

[John Coloccia]

The "barrel rasps" I'm familiar with are used to fit gun stocks to the barrel of the gun....think like a Kentucky rifle. I haven't seen one that looks like THAT, though. Maybe it's a completely different use.

[Bill Houghton]

That it was sold as a barrel rasp does not, of course, mean that's what it was...

Probably unrelated to the video game and/or steroids that come up as the first Google choices, either.

I'll be following this thread with some interest; it's an intriguing device.

[george wilson]

That looks more like a cooper's tool. Possibly for fitting around the lid area?? I haven't seen one like that. Sure it isn't an automotive lead float?

[Larry McGarrah]

I did a bit of internet research and it is a "half round vixen file" used for auto body repair to shape the inside of fenders circa 1935-1940. Not much available about Nolvex except they had a couple of patents for files and they were in Ohio.

[Bill Houghton]

I did a bit of internet research and it is a "half round vixen file" used for auto body repair to shape the inside of fenders circa 1935-1940.

There's a thread over on WoodNet right now on a similar, but more common, tool, used on the top, convex part of the fender: http://www.forums.woodnet.net/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=5714475&page=1&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=