On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 18:56:45 -0500, Gerald Miller wrote:
On 28 Mar 2006 16:29:52 GMT, Dave Hinz wrote:

How could it possibly do that, when you're standing off to the side as
you should be when doing this sort of work?

It helps a lot if you have learned to file left handed.

Absolutely. Left hand on the handle, right hand on the end of the file
doing the steering. So the dexterity (heh) is still with the right
hand for the process. Not something I was taught, specifically, it just
makes sense to do it that way. Learned a long time ago to consider what
will happen when a tool slips or breaks and how that'll impact the
flesh.