Every beech has this rays. If it is 100% quatersawn This has to be old. On youger saws the hook vanished.
Looks like the saws Adam Cherubini and others replicated for the Wiliams Museum. If it is more than 200 years old that is a fantastic condition!
We use slottet spines. for a 0,5mm Sawblade i wloud use a 6mm strong and 15-25mm wide Spine. Question of taste if you like heavier saws better or...
I use the needlefiles only. The big F. Dick are 11.20 € at Dieter Schmid. The same files like the vallorbe label. But files are no long time tools.
Folding?
Hi Bob, I like the wood and the etching. Very well made! Do you bow your spines? Cheers Pedder
Sorry, I can't help at all. Never saw a simliar saw in Germany. Cheers Pedder
A friend send me pictures of his Shurly and Dietrich. The cut of the saw blade seem unusual to me. The horns of the blade reach fare in the handle...
Hi Alan, since we have a new maker for our spines, who cuts the slots on a cooled mill, we have some problems to fit a 0,3mm (0.012") blade in...
Hi Stewie. I like the low hang of the handle and the shape. This gives you a lot of forward power and less downward. So this saw could take a...
Hi Matt, The Foley curve: I think most of the curves vanishes after the teeth are filed a few strokes. So I punch, file install the spine,...
Hi Ray and all, I've sold a few saws, new and old. And I've shipped saws. Shipping saws around the world is a PITA. It often costs more...
Hi Mike, great you found this forum, welcome! Klaus made e spine for our first saws but we found out that this is done much better on a cooled...
Most saw makers have a weak point for saw vises. I like to see others and show you mine: I have actually three saw vises: an old ulmia, wich...
Hi Lui, we don't offer tapered saws ath the moment. But we are trying around a few things. Klaus has a large and wide beltsander but we need...
Hi Lui, what kind of beltsander do you use? I've a handheld one but I only get belts to sand wood not metal. They get dull fast on 1095....
Hi Lui, fantastic saw, thanks for the report. I would like to know, how you get the plate so shiny after tapering. I do have a Foley...
Hi Fred, I didn't watched but found it now, thanks to your description....
Hi Lui, we order our steel at http://hs-folien.de/deutsch/praezisionlehrenband.html a 0,3m*1m big piece for two big handsaws is about 30€...
Hi Ray, is it blasphemy to add details like plastic handles, hardened teeth but also - slotted spines (Independent saw) - ornanmented...
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