A professional who repairs bandsaw, handsaw, and circular saw blades according to customer's or manufacturer's specifications, using handtools, machine tools, and welding equipment. Responsibilities include:

• Examines saw for defects.
• Cuts broken teeth from saw, using power shear.
• Forms teeth on saw blade by beveling joints on grinder and welding or brazing them together.
• Brazes or welds cracks in saw blades.
• Straightens twists and kinks in blades, using straightening press, and hammers out dents in blade on metal table.
• Adjusts cutting width of teeth, using swage or special pliers.
• Computes number and angle of teeth to produce specified cut.
• Clamps blade in saw-filing machine and turns handwheel to adjust distance between teeth, angle of bevel, and depth of cut of file or abrasive wheel.
• Starts machine that automatically grinds and files saw teeth.
• May be designated according to type of saw sharpened as band-saw filer; circular-saw filer.