Favorite brand of saw file

[woodworkingboy]

I have three brands in the drawer, including one not mentioned yet, Woodsman Pro. I'm afraid my attention span doesn't extend to which brand is better, when one gets worn out I just pull out another. I like the Pferd box design the most.

 

[pete mctree]

Pferd or Vallorbe - both up to the task

 

[Cut4fun]

Save Edge right here in Ohio. http://www.saveedge.com/ http://www.saveedge.com/chainsawfiles.html

 

[NickfromWI]

Do you think they call it that because it is p-ferred!?

I use stihl saws, chains, and files.

love
nick

 

[Al Smith]

More times a file gets loaded up rather than dull .Magnus kind of mentioned his method .Mine is just to tap the file a few times to shake the dust out .

 

[MasterBlaster]

I bang mine after every tooth and keep it stored in a drinking straw.

 

[bonner1040]

Anyone use the pferd filing guides? That does the rakers at the same time?

 

[sotc]

Only guide I use

 

[MasterBlaster]

Hahahaha! Hippie!

 

[Magnus]

Banging and tapping get some saw dust and metal crud out, but not that that is wedged in to the cutters.
It needs more help to get out.

Some files are a tad ruff when new and leave a surface that is pretty uneven and rugged.

 

[woodworkingboy]

I saw an interesting guide recently, never had seen one like it before. It was a plastic rectangular plate that had the tooth angle inscribed on it, and it attached to the bar beneath the chain with a couple of imbedded magnets, that held it out a bit. It was easy to mimic the angle on the plate with your file, and it didn't require any more motion or time compared to not using any guide at all, my usual method. You dont even have to line up the chain with the disk, just an eye on it gives a reference for a number of teeth until you slide the chain along. It appeared to be a very good idea. Anyone else seen one like that? Every once in a while using it seemed like it would keep your angles true.

 

[MasterBlaster]

That sounds like a cool tool.

 

[Magnus]

Sandvik had something like that years ago.
I have in a box somewere, but I am not sure were?

 

[stig]

I have the predecessor to that somewhere.
It was made and sold by the janitor at the forestry school back in the 70es.
A block of wood, with two kitchen cabinet door magnet embedded and lines cut on top and bottom in 30 and 35 degrees.

 

[Al Smith]

On occasion I use an Oregon file guide .They've been around for years .

 

[SouthSoundTree]

Only guide I use

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Willie, is that some oversized air filter and filter cover on that action, there?

 

[HolmenTree]

On occasion I use an Oregon file guide .They've been around for years .

Yes they've been around for a while Al. I first learned to "properly" file sawchain with one when I was 15.

 

[Al Smith]

Ha I never filed a chain until I was in my 20s' and it was with a guide also .

When I was 15 they sent the chains in to be ground and at the time I didn't know any different . There ya go though growing up in farm country how would a kid know any different ?

 

[sotc]

Green weinie, Sean