Thread: Saw Sharpening Files - an online petition to try and get a result

Well so far the Americans are outdoing the Aussies 6:1 for signatures.

Helllooooooo.....

Given that this is such a niche little thing I'm pretty happy with the way the Petition is going. There are 254 supporters so far, and they are from the following countries:

ASIA PACIFIC
Australia	34
New Zealand	2
THE AMERICAS
United States	199
Canada	8
UK & EUROPE
United Kingdom	3
Denmark	1
Germany	1
Switzerland	1
Netherlands	1
SCANDINAVIA
Norway	1
Sweden	2
AFRICA
South Africa	1

Now that's all good, but the Yanks are killin' us - and they've only known about it for 36 hours! My understanding is that our forum is the largest in the world, so.....click on my signature line any time you like.

There are now threads linking to it on the following forums:
talkFestool
Lumberjocks and here
Woodnet
The Wood Haven
UK Workshop

Much thanks to TobyC and Brit*al (Andy) for promoting it elsewhere. Andy in particular has taken up the cudgel, and is taking no prisoners.

In discussions with "you know who" the other night, he told me that he will be responsive to demand (i.e. signatures).

Toby

There are 10 times more Americans that Aussies so really I think they should take a good look at themselves :P

Signed

Originally Posted by Berlin

There are 10 times more Americans that Aussies so really I think they should take a good look at themselves :P

Signed

There are about 14 times more people in the USA than Oz, so Aussie votes are running at nearly 2.5 x per capita of the US.

Originally Posted by BobL

There are about 14 times more people in the USA than Oz, so Aussie votes are running at nearly 2.5 x per capita of the US.

Oi, oi, oi

Hmmm. By a process of elimination, people in Japan must have the perfect files ... No complaints at all.

Also Antartica.

Paul

I'm suprised there aren't more signing up.
Getting decent saw files is near impossible, and lots of people have saws. ??
Do they send them out to be sharpened, use the blunt or use disposables?

A couple of stats:

350 sigs so far, and the table shows the ratio of Aussies, compared to the rest:

COUNTRY	SIGS	POPULATION	RATIO
Australia	48	23,070,272	1
United States	249	316,149,000	2.6
New Zealand	2	4,469,800	4.6
Sweden	4	9,580,424	5
Norway	2	5,063,709	5.3
Canada	12	35,141,542	6.1
United Kingdom	15	63,181,775	8.8
Germany	4	80,399,300	41.8

Only showing countries with more than one sig. Tha RATIO shows how many times ahead Aussie is to that country on a per capita basis (i.e. Aussie has 2.6 times the take up rate that the USA has). To be expected that Aussie would be leading because this is where the most noise has been made, and for the longest time. Also note that the petition has only been promoted in USA and UK besides here, so to be expected that the others won't have as many.

Satisfactory target is 500 I reckon, given the niche nature of the files.

Yep, we even need to win at petitioning.

Brett,

PM

Toby

Only 55 votes needed to reach the minimum target of 500. Please vote if you haven't already done so.

465 sigs now, a mere 35 to get to the psychological 500.

Australia still has the highest take-up rate, followed by the USA.

COUNTRY	SIGS	POPULATION	RATIO
Australia	63	23,070,272	1
United States	324	316,149,000	2.7
New Zealand	4	4,469,800	3.1
Canada	21	35,141,542	4.6
United Kingdom	29	63,181,775	5.9
Sweden	4	9,580,424	6.5
Norway	2	5,063,709	6.9
Denmark	1	5,605,836	15.3
Serbia	1	7,241,295	19.8
Switzerland	1	8,058,100	22
Netherlands	2	16,789,900	22.9
Hungary	1	9,906,000	27.1
Germany	5	80,399,300	43.9
Italy	3	59,685,227	54.3
France	2	65,657,000	89.6
Poland	1	38,533,299	105.2
Spain	1	47,059,533	128.5
South Africa	1	52,981,991	144.7

As far as a comparison with Facebooks "likes" is concerned, I reckon a signature without comment is worth two likes (at least), and a sig with comment is worth three (simply because of the extra effort involved - a "like" is just a click).

Originally Posted by FenceFurniture

465 sigs now, a mere 35 to get to the psychological 500.

Australia still has the highest take-up rate, followed by the USA.

COUNTRY	SIGS	POPULATION	RATIO
Australia	63	23,070,272	1
United States	324	316,149,000	2

As you know, I would never nit-pick or obsess about tiny details ...

However ... Oz = 1 per 366195 people.

US = 1 per 975768.

Canada = 1 per 1673407.

... what is your ratio number calculated from?

Cheers, (helpfully)
Paul