Files & rasps review! featuring Iwasaki & Shinto

Here are my thoughts on these little beauties, premium tools with a budget price tag!

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[Vitol]

Beautifil statue of our most blessed mother, may she always intercede for you and may God bless you. Thank you for the good review

[DCraftersCorner]

Great video, explanation and review :).

[ConradAquilina]

To shape a square ugly headstock, I was thinking to cut out the bulk with a jigsaw, then file my way to the shape I need. Do you think I could do the job with one single rasp? If yes, which one? One of the small Iwasaki's? And the flat one or the arched one? Thanks :)

P.S. This will be my first tool purchase, so there's that!

[muxmurki]

Thanks very much for Your review as a professional woodworker. I'm just an ambitioned amateur, let's say: high-end DIYer, but with some scientific background. Living in Germany, I'm a bit biased towards our tools, since we have a lot of world-class tool companies (WERA, Knipex, Festool, Kirschen, FAMAG and so on), but perhaps because of that fine tools from all over the world are very popular here. That's why Dieter Schmid from feinewerkzeuge.de (finetools.de) is a first-class source for foreign (and sometimes domestic) tools. Who ever sawed with a Japanese wood saw will not use European style saws again...
I do have the Shinto saw-rasp in a version marketed by Stanley for 30 years. AFAIK, there was a German firm called Stichling who marketed those some 40 years ago, but I don't know if it was a Japanese tool they relabeled or the Shinto is based on their invention. It doesn't matter, that is an excellent tool for aggressive removal.
I'd like to thank you very much again for Your professional opinion on these Iwasaki rasp-files; I was interested for some time and will follow your advice and buy the small and fine ones as a complement for the rather aggressive Shinto tool.
I guess these together are better than the very expensive French handmade rasps and also better than my standard for files/rasps, which is PFERD.

All the best