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of one-third the diameter. Fig. 2 will illustrate the meaning. The 

 teeth on the left are correctly filed , the others incorrectly. The teeth 

 may be filed slightly fiairing by holding the file obliquely, especially 

 of the cross-cut, as they are to be used generally in soft wood. The 

 next operation is setting. This may be done with the ordinary saw-set, 



Fig. 2. 

 made much like a knife with notches of different widths along the edge 

 for bending the teeth; but a beginner will generally succeed best with 

 one of the various patent affairs containing a gauge. Whatever is used 

 the set must be as little as possible — just bending the point of the teetJU 

 outside the plane of the saw as in Fig. 3. So that the end of the kejflf is 

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square across, and not containing a point in the middle, as in Fig, 4. 



Fig. 4. 



However carefully the saw may be set, the teeth will probably not all 

 get exactly the same amount of bending; so to make them perfectly 

 oven the saw must next be jointed. This is done by turning it back- 



