Round files for sharpening

[John Mc]

Plastic straws! It's so obvious once you mention it, but I never would have thought of that,

[HolmenTree]

Soft drink straws a little too small for a 7/32" file, but a milkshake straw works fine. :D

[WUDPIRAT]

  I thought soda sraws as file holders was common knowledge.
Just as mustard goes on hotdogs and ketchup is for hamburger, if you like ketchup.  I'd rather mustard on bergers and dogs, ketchup is for eggs.      :D

[HiTech]

I bought some Total files...seem to be very good. They come 6 to a package, a little pricey if I remember. Well to make a long story short I am on my 3rd. chain and still on the first file. I don't do anything special to the files other than clean them. They make what they call a file card. It cleans the groves in a file. No matter what kind of file it is, square, flat, round, rectangle or pyramid they fill in, the card will clean them.