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Most woodworking apprenticeships start out with learning to sharpening, I mean after cleaning the toilets or whatever nice jobs the boss may want to give you to cleanse your spirit. :roll: I'll never forget standing over the stones for days on end for six months. Hands were in bad shape...

Offhand, it seems like if the boss can't at least maintain his companies saws in a reasonable way, or make provision to have them maintained, it makes me wonder what other aspects of his business could be suffering from laziness or whatever it is. I mean maybe it is his only shortcoming, but...

:lol: Firing a customer, I like that!

I feel the same way as top and Stephen, when on someone else's job, whether I want to stop and sharpen a bit is not something open to discussion. It's not just efficiency, but safety too.

That is a general theme with all woodwork cutting tools, you increase the risk factor with dull, generally people try to compensate by adding force, not good.

Anyone that doesn't want you to take five minutes to touch up a dull saw, probably doesn't want you to relieve your bladder either. A few minutes to do something useful when a short length of free time...or almost free time shows up, is that so much of a self indulgent thing to ask for?

What I have learned from Jerry on that point, is making your back cut even with the top of the gap, will then have the split run from the edge of your back cut to the bottom of the gap. The hinge will break at the bottom of the gap and will leave some stump shot. I believe it is generally the...