Saw maintenance

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Following on from my talk at Frame 2011 in Cardiff, I have had an article pubished in the "Mortice & Tenon", the quarterly magazine of the Carpenters Fellowship. For those of you who don't subscribe, I've reproduced the article bellow. Making a new handsaw. I’ve always had and used old hand saws. There is nothing wrong with a modern, plastic handled saw, with its induction hardened universal teeth. In fact for cutting plywood, with its multi directional grain, they’re great, but they’re...

Sharpening a Saw: With traditional saws making a comeback, Andy King walks you through how to sharpen a saw and get them into tip top condition. There’s a resurgence of very high quality dovetail saws on the market these days. Makers like Gramercy, Wenzloff and Lie …

Saws: Restoring, Collecting, Using - My 7 Month Journey Saws: Restoring, Collecting, Using - My 7 Month Journey It has been seven months since my first...

Bob Rummer restores his dad's old Disston handsaw

Shop-made Saw Vise by Daryl Weir

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Filer Guide for Hand-Saws: Sharpening a saw can be one of the most "difficult" tasks for a woodworker. I built this guide for sharpening hand-saw teeth at the required relief angles, for both rip saw and crosscut saw. Inspired in an old tool from 1987 hard to achieve (at lea…

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Filer Guide for Hand-Saws: Sharpening a saw can be one of the most "difficult" tasks for a woodworker. I built this guide for sharpening hand-saw teeth at the required relief angles, for both rip saw and crosscut saw. Inspired in an old tool from 1987 hard to achieve (at lea…

It’s hard for me to imagine but I remember when the saws I’m discussing a little here below came into being in the late 1960s and early 1970s in the UK. It was a new era that somehow seemed by some a…

The new Veritas saw file holder is a great tool for holding a saw file at the proper rake and fleam angles. For a good review of this innovative new tool look here. If you have been thinking of try…