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Jim- On the topic of history of the old tools you asked about,
here's what I have so far (from a fellow blacksmith who is just
starting to write a book:
"I just started my research on a book on the history of
Blacksmithing. I have some information but take it with a grain of
salt. It is just from the beginning of the search.

Bronze rasps have been found in Egyptian tombs from about 1200BC.
Iron rasps in Mesopotamia for around 700 BC. Hardened metal files
date back to the Middle Ages around the 12th century AD.

There is a hacksaw in the Viking Mastermyr tool chest found in
Sweden. That chest is generally believed to date to the late
Viking/early medieval period ( around 1000 AD).

As to the leg vice, I do not have much detail yet. However, there is
a clear depiction of them in Denis Diderot's Encyclopedie published
in France between 1750-1770."

If I do get any more info, I will start a new topic.

Pete Stanaitis
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I ask because I've read that hand tools changed very little from
ancient times to the Industrial Revolution, but the article gave no
evidence. My oldest useful books are by Theophilus (~1100),
Biringuccio and Agricola (1500's).

http://www.tms.org/pubs/Books/PDFs/0.../09-1002-0.pdf
"The period from the disintegration of Rome to the sixteenth century
is ,
singularly lacking in specific metallurgical information, for there
was little
connection between the worlds of those who wrote and those who worked
in
metals."

Ancient authors Vitruvius and Heron of Alexandria presented the
sophisticated results they could achieve but not the tools or methods.

-jsw