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<p>[QUOTE="springfld.arsenal, post: 37444, member: 54"]Looks to me like a scraper made from a file. There's not enough file surface left outside the added coating for using it as a file, and someone has ground the end diagonal so the front edge can be used as a scraper. You can see the distinctive shape of the broken-off file tang on the rear end, probably why it was re-purposed. Files are very hard steel, thus good material for a scraper as well as a file. I don't think u will ever find a tool like that in any catalog[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="springfld.arsenal, post: 37444, member: 54"]Looks to me like a scraper made from a file. There's not enough file surface left outside the added coating for using it as a file, and someone has ground the end diagonal so the front edge can be used as a scraper. You can see the distinctive shape of the broken-off file tang on the rear end, probably why it was re-purposed. Files are very hard steel, thus good material for a scraper as well as a file. I don't think u will ever find a tool like that in any catalog[/QUOTE]
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