Thread: Sharpening and setting your own saws

Originally Posted by IanW

Bahco files are about as good as anything you'll get your hands on easily in Aus. I've been buying mine from Gasweld, they carry a decent range with & without handles, & the price is reasonable. I just did a search and some came up on Amazon - at twice the Gasweld price!!
Cheers,
Ian

Asking about this specific thing in another post. Thanks for confirming Ian

Originally Posted by Sam

Ian and Paul thanks for your input. Can I be pain and maybe OT slightly and ask where we’re at with sourcing files ? Any current recommendations ?

Try Graham McDonald Services at Girraween NSW, biggest range of files I’ve ever seen. Best to ring them as the website is pretty clunky.
http://gmdengineering.com.au/

HEres a basic google sheet i had pulled together the other day, identifying the Bahco (and intention was to add more brands but hard to find) files that match the recommended list from the link Ian provided above.

Delbs- Saws & Files - Google Sheets

This was just for my own reference to then catalog the 2nd hand saws i have collected and match up the files so i had a few per saw profile. If its of any use to you then happy days

Cheers,
Nathan

Delbs

Just be sure to check availability with Gasweld. Yesterday they listed 100mm EST files, but they don't have them and I can no longer see the entry : Only 125mm, which was the one IanW linked.

Regards
Paul

Thanks for the heads up. I'm going to visit them tomorrow morning so I'll see what their stock levels are like

Was able to pick up the three files below. I had taken photos to help myself at the counter but figured they would be useful here also.

I'll try them out with the 10 saws I have to file currently and figure out what I'm missing and fill out the spreadsheet etc