Post by sawduster on Jan 11, 2010 12:47:44 GMT -6
Well, the fella was supposed to come on Saturday, but had to do some other stuff so came over yesterday afternoon. He brought along a rip saw he had sharpened that was sticking around a certain point on the blade. Took a look and there was a bit of dead rust or something right around that area and after cleaning that off with some sandpaper, the saw did alright. It was a bit course for hardwoods, but he needed it to cut some pine, and it worked nicely on that.
He also brought a small back saw he got off fleabay from someone in England. Very nice Disston with a brass back. Not a lot of those around, I don't think. The teeth had been butchered badly and needed to be jointed flat and new teeth cut, and since we had a limited amount of time and I couldn't find my 16ppi template, we held off on doing that one.
We were more interested in checking out his sharpening technique, so moved on to a larger back saw, late1800s/early 1900s Disston. This had well formed teeth and needed only a slight jointing and reshaping of the teeth so we went after that one. I watched over and made a few miner adjustments to his technique and ended up with a nice cross cut back saw that needs only a bit of cleanup and a coat of wax.
He also brought along a nice pre-1928 #7 panel saw that he had previously sharpened and I checked it out and it looked good.
Had a great time shooting the bull with him and just hanging out.
He also brought a small back saw he got off fleabay from someone in England. Very nice Disston with a brass back. Not a lot of those around, I don't think. The teeth had been butchered badly and needed to be jointed flat and new teeth cut, and since we had a limited amount of time and I couldn't find my 16ppi template, we held off on doing that one.
We were more interested in checking out his sharpening technique, so moved on to a larger back saw, late1800s/early 1900s Disston. This had well formed teeth and needed only a slight jointing and reshaping of the teeth so we went after that one. I watched over and made a few miner adjustments to his technique and ended up with a nice cross cut back saw that needs only a bit of cleanup and a coat of wax.
He also brought along a nice pre-1928 #7 panel saw that he had previously sharpened and I checked it out and it looked good.
Had a great time shooting the bull with him and just hanging out.
I find it to be tedious and monotonous. Heh.