fred carson: hi. my name is fred carson. i'mfrom carson's saw shop in eugene, oregon. i've been sharpening tools for over thirtyyears. i'm here with expert village. okay. here, we have a hand saw. and it's got eightteeth per inch and it's twenty-six inches long, and we need to sharpen every tooth,every other tooth on each individual side. and we have a hand saw vise, you put in here.you could be using a couple of 2 x 4s to clamp
files for woodworking, it in. and you need a little three-corneredfile. this is about an eight inch file, and it's got three sides to it. and that's a finetwo or three-cornered file, and it's pretty important that you get--you hold the fileso it's cutting the face of the tooth. and at the same time, it's hitting the tooth onthe top. so you're facing and topping each
tooth every stroke you take. so you want thisat a 90 degree, and at the same time, you're going across the top of the opposite of thetooth in front of it. and you want to make sure and kinda make--not cut one tooth anylower than the other. and so, you gotta make sure you cut--go across each tooth two, orthree times, and not a whole bunch on one, or the other. you just gotta skip every othertooth. you don't really want to go back and forth. that creates too much heat and dullsthe file at the same time. put in, probably, two or three pounds of pressure on each tooth,each stroke, and you gotta flip it over. so we were doing it this way, and now, you gottaflip it to the opposite side so you're sharpening the other side. do exactly what you just did,and do the whole saw just like that.
