paul womack
>I'm all for encouraging people to "have a go", but understating the difficulty serves no one. If a task is described as easy, and a beginner fails at it, it's not going to do a lot for their confidence.

If you've genuinely never found any difficulty in sharpening saws, you're the only one I've heard of, and must be either talented, lucky, or both, and to a high degree at that.

Most people I've spoken to (including via the net) on the matter (and I take an interest in it, having taught myself) found areas of difficulty, which could be overcome with a judicious mixture of knowledge and practice, but areas of difficulty there most certainly were.

BugBear