Thanks for the tip about blade and pin mounts. Thats just the kind of noob thing I wouldn't be aware of. I don't mean to belabor my point, but to me all machines for wood run at a frantic pace. That's why I did a double reduction on the 14" bandsaw I converted to metal. From 3,000 fpm to 110 is quite a drop

It would be very instructive if you could take some pix of how you mounted the files. And are you using like jeweler files? Or the little Dremel files? I have a couple kits of those and they are my go to for detail work like cleaning up small tight welds.

I'd never even thought about a filer until I found one on here in a past post. It was a scratch build. If I remember I think it ran fairly slowly. I'd still want to run this slowly and with more pressure than fast and light. But I guess I'd want see which one worked for what I'd do.