Proper use of high quality files, burrs and grinding pin sets can dramatically improve the final appearance and feel of your work, leaving you with a far more professional-looking and user-friendly finished product.
What types of deburring tools are best for which jobs?
- Engineers files are the generic name for most types of hand file, typically consisting of a sturdy length of metal with teeth cut into one or both sides.
- They’re typically used wherever excess material or rough edges needs to be removed from a wide range of materials, including both wood and metal.
- They’re good for a range of crafting techniques, including deburring, shaping and smoothing
- They’re available in a very broad range of tool types and specific uses, including mill files, taper saw files, crosscut files, can saw files, auger bit files, flat files and warding files
- Choose a full file set for the easiest way to get all the essential file types in one handy package
- Needle files are a smaller file type used for shaping, smoothing and finishing materials such as metal, wood, plastic, ceramic, glass, stone, and polymer clay.
- They come in numerous different profiles: Round, Half Round, Barrette, Pillar (Flat), Warding, Knife, Crossing, Square, Oval, Slitting, Crochet and Three Square (Triangle)
- See also thread files (also known as thread restoring files) for a tool specifically designed with teeth that fit inside screw, nut or bolt threading to clean them out or cut away any blockages
- Burrs (also known as rotary files) and burr sets are small cutting tools that usually consist of a rounded cylindrical piece of metal, again with teeth cut into one end.
- They’re most commonly used to neaten and smooth the rough ridges (’burrs’) of a worked object/material, or to grind down any sharp edges left after drilling, welding or pipework - his is known as deburring
- Burrs and burr sets are available for use on most materials, including steel, aluminium, stone, ceramics, hardwood, and plastic
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