07-06-2019, 11:49 AM
(07-06-2019, 10:40 AM)Tony Z Wrote: [ -> ]One trick I've adopted from sharpening my chainsaw, is to place a wooden block on either side of the saw plate, a bit below the file, to help eyeball level for the file.Tony,
Funny you should mention chainsaw sharpening. Yet another area people are in fear they will destroy the teeth on the saw. In reality it takes but a minute or two to touch the chain up and keep it sharp. When I sharpen my chainsaws in the shop, I just clamp the bar in a metalworking vise, but sometimes no so easy if you cut in the woods. I just take extra chains if I was to cut in the woods or similar.
EDIT: I clicked on your link to your website and see you work with powder metals. Several years ago when LV was first coming out with powder metal chisels, Rob sent me some tool bit blanks as I wanted to try that on the lathe. They use all CNC, but I wanted to use them on my manual lathe. One of the guys I sent a blank to was cutting on an old Monarch 10EE and the edge failed, it literally crumbled under extreme cutting conditions. It turned into a huge debate between the folks I had testing and one claimed I was wasting their time. That was the end of our testing...
Admiral,
That's a good article that Issac did. Hope he's doing well, haven't exchanged mail with him in quite some time. He's a good guy. I see the rakemaker on his site, but it reminds me of using a piece of wood. I'm not trying to be a smart @$$, but if anyone takes the time to get the feel for hand sharpening a saw, you can watch the file well enough, it's not that difficult. It is an area that people have a phobia against for some reason.
That said, I haven't picked up a saw file in 4 months.
Alan