sometimes you buy a saw and it looks like a decent saw but it's not one of
the premium high-end saws that you might pay a hundred pounds or 200 pounds for
it may be just a saw that you found in a local hardware shop what do you do with
it when you get it usually you offer it to the wood to see how good it is let me
show you what I mean if I take a saw stroke or two with this let's count the
strokes one two three four five six seven ten eleven twelve so I've taken
twelve strokes I've gone down about fifteen millimeters I don't know it's
made a decent cut but it doesn't seem very progressive so what you do this is
what I would do with a saw like that just simply put it in the chalks tighten
it in the vise and watch this and see the difference now I think saws should go
out in a condition the way this one will end up but watch this and see what you
think so I'm going to drop my file into each gullet and take one stroke that's
all feel for the angle that it's already existing in so the stroke of the depth
of the gullet you're going right into the bottom watch
that's it same length of stroke same pressure level across and let's see what
the difference is so without doing anything else one two three four five six
I can't even go the number of strokes that I went before but look what I did
I've gone twice as far with half the energy and it works
perfectly