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[–] gharmonica 1 points 1 year ago

Paul has 2 videos one for crosscut saws and one for rip saws, both are amazing. In one of them he grinds the teeth flat and recut them from scratch, it's a very comprehensive guide on saw sharpening.

I never sharpened a cross saw, and only restored one rip saw, so not a master craftsman, but even with my limited experience I managed to get the saw cutting like butter. So it doesn't have to be perfect, and the teeth don't need to be completely identical, they just need to be sharp.