C Craft
Well-Known Member
So what I am trying to figure out which needle files/jewelers file to buy, for doing file work on a knife!! I seem to have a bad habit of leaning on the files to much and snaaaap!
This is a page from the Jewelers Supply Rio Grande, for their diamond files. https://www.riogrande.com/search?q=diamond+needle+files&c=&t=1&pageSize=32
When doing file work is a regular steel file better or is it better to step up to the diamond files??
Is it better to buy a set or concentrate on the files most used, triangle, round??? The sets only have one of each. Once you snap the triangular file or the round one you are done. I think it might be better to buy 2-3 of each!!
So anyone got any advice in buying and using needle files for file work on knives???????? Length of cut, brand, regular steel or diamond, etc. etc.??
My problem to this point is I get started, by the time I have used the file to do the layout and get into the real file work, the files are basically done cutting! So am I not cleaning often enough or have I just been buying the wrong files!
This is a page from the Jewelers Supply Rio Grande, for their diamond files. https://www.riogrande.com/search?q=diamond+needle+files&c=&t=1&pageSize=32
When doing file work is a regular steel file better or is it better to step up to the diamond files??
Is it better to buy a set or concentrate on the files most used, triangle, round??? The sets only have one of each. Once you snap the triangular file or the round one you are done. I think it might be better to buy 2-3 of each!!
So anyone got any advice in buying and using needle files for file work on knives???????? Length of cut, brand, regular steel or diamond, etc. etc.??
My problem to this point is I get started, by the time I have used the file to do the layout and get into the real file work, the files are basically done cutting! So am I not cleaning often enough or have I just been buying the wrong files!