GOLD Precision Rasps

CORRADI SpA is proud to present an exclusive and unique range of rasps for lute and cabinet making.
A lot of requests from our customers for very fine cut and long lasting rasps brought to a hard work in studying and testing all the tools available on international markets, from entirely hand-made to machine cut, industrial rasps. In co-operation with woodworking experts more than 90 different rasps were tested over 14 months in order to design and manufacture a top quality and versatile tool.
A great investment in R&D led to the CORRADI GOLD rasps range, completely manufactured in Italy with the best raw materials and state of the art manufacturing process. Each single step of product designing, from size to tooth shape choosing, was carefully monitored so that the result is a tool that has no equals.
CORRADI GOLD rasps are precision tools used for fine woodworking in lute making, cabinet making, sculpture on wood, though they can be used with excellent results on horn and bone, too.
Comparison between the best hand cut rasps available and CORRADI GOLD rasps • never seen hardness: they have a higher surface hardness, comparable to that of files. They have, therefore, a longer service life.
• special teeth pattern and sharpening: thanks to a new manufacturing process, completely developed by CORRADI, it’s possible to raise a unique pattern, never seen before, and a evenly raised teeth. That allows to work out fine details and a surface finishing incomparably better than any other model makers’ rasps. Despite the direction of strokes, our precision rasps truly leave no scratches on the workpiece, even though they are used by left-handers. All the above characteristics can be never achieved by hand cut rasps at all, even by the best ones.
• fine and razor sharpening cut: their ultrafine, ultrasharp cut (the finer one available is more than 600 teeth/square inch), in comparison with traditional model makers’ rasps, allows to easily work on hardwood with tough, uneven fiber, but it can also work on softwood with an outstanding stock removal using very low pressure and a few strokes.
• size, edges and tip: a small size, a fine and tapered tip, a cut all the way to the tip and edges, allow working on small pieces, complicated details, molded frames, finishing of chisel/gouge made details, on joints, tenons, dead and through holes.
• wear resistance and service life: each manufacturing step is carefully supervised and all of them are made in our facilities by skilled operators using dedicated CNC machine tools developed and manufactured by CORRADI. Each rasp has been tested during manufacturing at least 5 times according to more than 10 parameters - from molding to cutting, from heat treatment to sharpening. Besides those tests, many other field tests carried out during the R&D process before the commercialization, guarantee a long lasting product in any use conditions.

Suitable For: soft and hard wood, bone, horn.
Applications: woodworking, musical instruments, sculpture.
Suitable Handles: hornbeam handles, with sturdy brass ferrule, hand turned in Italy