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Originally Posted by murrmac123
It is indeed one of life's great mysteries . . .It irks me when I see it referred to as a "triangular " file even though that is what it undoubtedly is.
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I figured the Scottish connection was a matter of thrift - imagine the industrial implication - you'd save a full side for every file produced! Then, that might depress the market for file side futures. . .
I'm a touch over 70 now, and way back when, I recall my dad and other "adults" routinely calling them "3-corner" files and nothing else. "Three square" is still around, but all the catalogs I know have them listed as plain old boring "triangular" files.
Those are have an equilateral triangle cross section. Other triangular files have unequal sides but specialized uses an names: "knife" or "cant saw," for example.
The cant saw is my personal favorite for fret use - here's mine, with all its corners ground safe:
