Poll: What do you use to sharpen your saw?

[Woodworks]

It's the percentage of people who voted for that option I think.

 

I'm suprised so many people use free hand, I often get the wrong angle with the guide on.

 

Yep forgot that we can vote for more than one thing

[Eddy_t]

File with a guide, and a clamp of sorts

 

 

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[andyinsheffield]

Freehand

[Eagle]

A freehand mini grinder

 

 

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[Matthew Arnold]

2 in 1 with bench mounted vice and same again when out in field with a bar clamp on piece of wood or a stump

[leedeerman]

Free hand

[mikerecike]

Freehand and the Mk1 eyeball

 

ditto

[AlexB]

File guide on my knee in the woods. Going to get a vice to bolt to the van vault though.

 

 

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[Nige156]

Mixture of freehand and 2 in 1....the 2 in 1 is great for when im carving be ause it's a quick turnaround after I use my saws to detect metal hidden away....but you can't best a free hand edge. Plus there is s degree of pride from free handing (unless you've got +9ft of 3/8" to sharpen), then it becomes a "2 brews & 3 fags" job!!

[spudulike]

Freehand on blunt chains and bench grinder on any mullered chains.

 

Common fault on many chains hand sharpened is that the cutter angle gets more acute as it is easier to file the end of the cutter than the hook.

 

Had one of these in Friday and showed the owner what the line was for on the top of the cutter:001_rolleyes:

 

Still - it was a lesson for life:thumbup: