Research into the London saw industry, so superficially described in a certain large book on British saw makers, has taken a huge step forward...
Catching up with you all for a friend, who wants to know what's new on backsaw, and had to notice that Tony and co are trying to make sense of S&J...
Thanks to everyone for their kind remarks: from my point of view I am simply feeding back in a differently organised manner much of what has...
A very enviable acquisition, David. The handle is indeed fairly idiosyncratic in design, and I wonder whether it could conceivably have been made...
Catching up with a big backlog, Mari, and full of admiration for your canny purchase: a real beauty. Like Fred, I wouldn't care to put all my...
Sorry to see that so far no one has gritted their teeth and looked usefully at this awful old relic. The screws and nuts are perhaps made out of...
A couple of v interesting saws. The star/asterisk is an unusual decorative mark – I can think of it on only a very few saws. Taking Kiwi's...
First things first: I hope that by now David will have been able to clean up the blade of his Parkin & M: although it looks pretty beat up my...
I'm not a person who likes to see honourably used saws treated like this. I once had one of our many stand up rows with Ken Hawley, because in...
Good idea for a try, Ray. It would be nice to know that one's saw might go to a really appreciative saw fan. Simon
There's something not quite right about this one – as Nick says, the handle is compass saw style, not like any grafters I can find in any of the...
This has to be one of the puzzlers, I think. It's one of those saws that's difficult to date with anything like precision (nothing new here!), and...
The sight of a 4inch back saw must raise the question of whether this started out that size, or was modified: In favour of originality are the...
Peter's observations on handle features and their usefulness, or otherwise, cheered me up, as I have laboured greatly to try and find a way of...
At a tool auction last week I acquired the long one, and had merely to envy the owner the short one. The latter is fairly self explanatory – I...
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