Smoothing the Edges of a Copper Pipe Xylophone

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We want to enjoy our xylophone after it's made and because we want to enjoy it and not have it hurt us, we need to take care of a few rough edges. Now, those rough edges are just what I mean. When you cut the pipe with the pipe cutter it leaves a very sharp edge around the top of the pipe. Can we get in and see that closely? We can see that it's very sharp, almost like a knife, kind of like a dull knife blade. It's still sharp enough to cut us if it caught us at the right angle. So, what we're going to use is a small metal file and this metal file is going to help us smooth out those edges so that if we have any children around or even for our own safety we don't get any cut fingers from our xylophone. That way we can enjoy it and not worry about the safety issues. So what we do is we take the sharp edge and we run this at an angle around the whole pipe. And we do that with quite a bit of oomph, or force, until we can feel that those edges are gone. We still have a few edges. I can still feel them. So we're going to keep going at it. Again, it's going to take a couple of minutes. But if you go at it good and steady you can get it done quick. Yeah, we've taken care of them. So, now we know that this is not going to be a danger to people who are playing our xylophone should they slide their finger on the bottom of the pipe.

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