Just Curious

[Lucy]

Hi Guys,
I have been working here at Tools-Plus for a while now and in all of this time working with tools I have yet to figure out why our Mercer files are called "Bastard". They always seemed like perfectly nice files to me. Does anyone know where this name came from?
-Jeanne Savelle

 

[tbellemare]

I've always thought it was because it's neither rough or medium (2nd cut), it's a bastard grade.

Tom

 

[Neill]

Hi Guys,
I have been working here at Tools-Plus for a while now and in all of this time working with tools I have yet to figure out why our Mercer files are called "Bastard". They always seemed like perfectly nice files to me. Does anyone know where this name came from?
-Jeanne Savelle

Jeanne,

Maybe because its mother was defiled.

Neill

 

[Mac]

Neill,

Nicely played.  Have you been waiting to use that for a long time..? 

Mac

 

[Neill]

Neill,

Nicely played.  Have you been waiting to use that for a long time..? 

Mac

Mac,

Thanks and yes.  I live for this kind of opportunity.

Neill

 

[Mac]

haha, wonderful!

Mac

 

[Wim]

The term "bastard" is used in the meaning intermediate. It is between coarse and 2nd cut. Finer cuts are called smooth and dead smooth.
In Dutch the term is basterd and it is used in the same meaning, halfway between coarse (rasp) and 2nd cut (halfzoet).

 

[Rob Z]

Neill,  That was Pun-errific.  ;D