Some of the alternatives are just too small and have too fine a cut - more clockmaker rather than model engineering. The files are just smaller versions of the sort of thing you would find in a machine shop. They are are a comfortable fit in the hand without being too fiddly, and a coarser cut, so great for taking some meat of fairly quickly. They also have wooden handles which give a much better grip than plastic. The plastic wallet will probably fall apart in no time flat, they all do. I would have preferred a rigid plastic box to protect them in my over-crowded toolbox, but I'm sure I can come up with something to better before I break them.
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