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That is a good point you made but I doubt very much it wasn’t set correctly, I’ve had and used this saw for a good 2 years now and this is the firat time I only wanted just to touch it up because even after so long using it, it was still sharp but not sharp enough. However lately I have noticed the saw starting to bind in the cut so maybe somehow but I don’t know how it’s possible that it lost it’s set.
I need to learn how to sharpen, some folks learn how to sharpen before they even learn to woodwork, others dive into joints and then other just start making things and learn the joinery as they go along and that’s how i started all those years ago. My uncle was a saw sharpener and made files by hand I was too young to learn and he passed away so I lost my opportunity there. My grandad made furniture by hand which was the norm then he passed away during WWII so I another opportunity. My dad he’s a power tool guy so there’s nothing to learn there. Since 99.99% of us have not the opportunity to do an old school apprentischip we are basically on our own.
I will as I have no choice but to learn how to sharpen these saws but it’s going to be difficult finding old saws in this country and shipping them from the US or England is down right expensive. So my alternative will be if these saw sharpener does a great job on my saw is to employ them as my teacher and get them to feed me work which in return I will have to work for free in order to learn. If they cannot feed me work then I will have no option but but to pay the shipping and that’s the price you pay for knoweledge.
I do not see any other alternative. This is 2014 not 1914 saw sharpener are too far and few so in order to continue working wood we as craftsman have an obligation towards ourselves to learn how to bloody well do these things ourselves. As Paul said it takes 4 mins to sharpen a saw that’s included putting it in the vice, sending it away takes 3 days before you get it back. That’s not good practice in my view, so learn it is. It just means that my work must slow down till I become competant at sharpening saws.