[TheForge] Effective filing

[Andrew Vida]

Steve Smith wrote:
> When you do have to use one, a file card is only useful on a coarse 
> enough file. If you have a fine file, it won't do a thing except dull 
> the file.
> 
> Instead, take a piece of brass or copper tubing and flatten the end. Use 
> this as a tool to shove through the teeth. You want to push the copper 
> along the file in the easiest possible direction, quite a different 
> angle from when you are filing. You aren't trying to file the copper!
> 
> The idea is that the copper is soft enough that it quickly shape itself 
> to the trough you are running it along, and cleans all the junk out. It 
> is really amazing how much better the file works afterward.
> 

	Another great tool for cleaning out fine files are finger nails, though 
it can be painfully slow and rather hard on one's nails.

	Never tried the copper idea, but it sounds like a good one for the 
reference file.  I'll have to try it.