Stihl2 IN 1 EASY FILE CHAINSAW CHAIN SHARPENER .325"

The sharpener works great! I have a harbor freight automatic one that is hard to set up. This is very easy and sharpens both the cutting edge and the rakers simultaneously. Only a few pushes on each teeth makes a huge difference in your cutting. A little expensive, but well worth the money to know that you’re sharpening at the right angle. I have one for my large Stihl chainsaws and a different one for my small one. They both work great!

These really work great. Not just for Stihl saws. Easy to use and sharpens fast. Note they come in different sizes.

Item is exactly as described.

Exactly what I needed, sharpens very good, easy to use

The item was fine but it was the wrong size - I have been waiting three weeks for DHL to collect and return it but no one has contacted me. Lousy return policy!

This sharpener is fantastic! It makes it so it's almost impossible to mess it up. It seems like my saw cut 1000x better after using it, probably because it filed down the depth gauges. The first time I used it, a lot of metal came off from the gauges because I was previously only sharpening the teeth. Highly recommended.

Really handy guide and file. I have owned and used chain saws for many many years, including as a business a long time ago. To me, for the ease and accuracy with which you can use these guides, they are very worthwhile for filing chain yourself. The option is to take the chain to be sharpened where they will use a grinder. Those do a great job but take more off the chain than necessary so by using these, your chain will last longer and you'll save money in the longer run too.

I'm a chainsaw novice. I have a bunch of dead ash trees thanks to the emerald ash bore beetle. I figured I could save some money by buying a nice chainsaw and cutting them down myself. I noticed that it was getting harder and harder to saw the trees and eventually the chain bound and some of the drive links bent. I sucked it up and read the manual. What I didn't realize is the chain gets dull pretty quickly and you have to sharpen or replace it. Shut up, I said I was a novice and I'm too proud to read the manual until disaster hits.I went to the dealer and found a new chain was about $28. That was going to add up fast. I asked how much they'd charge to sharpen it. That was only $10. I went online and watched some videos. There are some cool tools to make sharpening easier, but they are kind of expensive and I'm a cheapskate--that's why I was doing this myself in the first place.I bought a vice and this file. The instructions were somewhat opaque and had no words, but knowing what I needed to do from the online videos, I was able to piece it together. The symbols on the file make clear what you are supposed to do once you figure things out. The first time I sharpened the chain it took 30 minutes, but each subsequent time, I got faster and after a half dozen or so sharpenings, I'm down to about 5 minutes. One helpful hint is that one of the links on the chain is green so you should start sharpening there so you can easily tell when you've gone around the entire chain. I'm not sure when I need to replace the files themselves, but as long as it keeps sharpening my chain, I guess I can keep using the initial files. I just finished cutting up my fourth tree today and am still on my second chain (that first one still has bent links).