[TheForge] Effective filing

[Ralph Douglass]

Andrew Vida wrote:
> 
> 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.

My nails are too soft. But I have found that a 30-30 shell works well
once the open end is flattened.

Ralph
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