Comments by "Jack Voss" (@jackvoss5841) on "Life of a Woodsman - Sharpening a Saw" video.

  1. To protect your file, and other contents of your fix-it kit, get a piece of thin cardboard. The back piece of a lined tablet is about right. Mark a piece that is about 1/2” longer than the full length of the file, and about 2 and a half times wider. Cut it out. Lay your file flat on the cardboard with an edge of the file parallel to an edge of the cardboard, back 1/4”. Holding the file straight, fold the cardboard over the file. Tape the cardboard together. You now have a sheath for the file. Courtesy of Half Vast Flying
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  2. Those teeth do all of the cutting with the pointed tips. With offset on the teeth, the points are wider than the sides. Point width determines the width of the kerf. The entire saw is just a support system for those pointy tips. But, sharpening the edges helps maintain full length of the tooth. Another thing to watch is that all teeth are the same length to insure that they can all reach the bottom of the kerf. A tooth that doesn’t reach out as far as its neighbors, isn’t doing its job. Laying a straight edge along the row of tips will show teeth that are too short or too long. Courtesy of Half Vast Flying
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