[4] Use the fine wood file for the final shape and finish.

Since the wood used to make paint sticks is harder than balsa, it is best to use a wood file to shape the wings, although coarse sandpaper can be used.

* Use a fine-tooth wood file (Photo 14) to smooth the edges.

brad point bit, a fine-tooth metal file and a coarse-tooth wood file.

Get a good wood rasp: a coarsetoothed wood file that is flat on one side and rounded on the other to remove stock that the saw, plane and chisels leave behind.

Besides simple hand tools, we recommend a wood file and a square that can be used to guide a saw (see Photo 1 for an example).

If you have a router, you can use it to round over some of the edges, but a simple wood file and sandpaper will work.

Wood requires the very sharpest and freshest of files, so canny file operators will never use wood files on metal until wood files are retired.

The pre-9/11 refrain of "No, don't send that offsite" became "Please tell me you sent it offsite!" Any former Brown & Wood files returned from storage needed to have all labels changed before delivery to a lawyer, as they had to reflect the new client/matter numbers and folder bar codes.

Key equipment used to make the wood files and bases and wood drafting tables include a Wadkins moulder, Mattison rip saw, Delta sanders and shapers, routers and a pocket-hole drill by Unique Machine and Tool Co."