Learn a lost art

Sharp cutting tools are essential to precision woodworking, and yet very few woodworkers know how to
sharpen their own hand saws. And for good reason: it’s tricky! There is so much confusion surrounding
the process that even many professional craftspeople send their hand saws out to be sharpened. It’s easy to
be overwhelmed with terms like fleam angle, rake angle, jointing, crosscut teeth, rip teeth, mill file, file card, triangle file, shaping, and setting.