Wanted! square files

Yep, and rakers wont be an excuse.

 

Care to elaborate ?

 

Nope, no need.

 

I see this thread just kept going...

And no notices... Weird...

 

My chips from this square chain please give input

 

Why is this occurring

 

Here are some clearer pics

 

Send a pic of how you are holding your file in the cutter.

On the chips, what wood are you cutting? They are breaking off a bit prematurely..
Lotsa possible reasons for that.

 

Here is file in hand roughly

 

As I suspected.. You're getting the corner of your cutter with the wrong corner of the file.

 

I'll bet Mike has a quick vid somewhere of him making a couple final swipes he can post to make this make more sense.

 

Why do just the right hand cutters look like that Skip ??
The left hand cutters look like you are holding it the right way ............

 

Red oak , white oak for the chip wood

 

Even with that funky lip on the cutters it cuts well

 

Thanks for any help / info up front guys and I know I'm a few days behind just got caught up in stuff

 

If the working corner and top plate are sorta sharp, I don't doubt it'll cut, but you'll want to make a proper cutter, and it'll cut better..
And last longer..

 

hope this helps the wide part of the file does the top plate

 

when you get your chain dialed in ,you will not tear the chips ,will be a clean cut on both sides ,took me a long time to figure it out ,take your time and after a while it will get easier