Esteemed Galoots,

I read those comments a while ago about the virtues of a miter box saw
being filed in a peg tooth pattern and it made sense to me.=A0 You don't
pick up the saw from the wood on the back stroke when using a miter box,
so why not cut equally in both directions?=A0 I went ahead and filed a
saw like that and it seems to work just fine(though it needs freshened
up a little after using it for a number of years).=A0 I can't really say
it is noticeably better than filing it like a crosscut hand saw, but it
is not noticeably worse either.=A0 I've had a number of other miter
boxes go through my hands in the intervening years that I've tried and
none of them have been that much better that I wanted to take the time
to re-file the saw.

Jim Crammond in Monroe, Mi.



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