I'm not familiar with Badaxe's revamped design but I would add an adjustable dog/pawl so you can rapidly align the plate with the next tooth to be...
Peddar asks an interesting question, and having set tens of thousands of saws I think it's clear what the best method for my own purposes is. Set...
Atkin(s) & Son were very big Birmingham tool merchants and I've seen saws (mainly hand and rip models), chisels and especially moulding planes...
The 2501 was designed to slot into a hardy hole (in an anvil) or was belted into a log for sharpening in the field. I've used one on 5 foot...
I have two (heavily used and abused) Preston 1460s. I read somewhere that only about 300 of these were made. They suffer all the usual issues...
Anything that doesn't allow the plate to be held under tension is a waste of time - 200+ years of saw making and material science says so. Tension...
I've reshaped the feeder pawl tip as well. You have to keep the grooves clean of gunge as well. It's hardened. I think 16 is the very finest the...
A machining tip I read somewhere... Never back screw a reamer. Apparently it changes the diameter. Split saw bolts are the invention of the devil.
People are getting a bit greedy with the NOS files, driven in part by our desperation to get them because the new ones are typically utter...
Obergs are excellent if you can get them, very smooth cutting, as are Bahco/Sandvik. It's just a case of continuity of supply.
The Japanese micro rasps are super hard awesome for handles etc. I look for old stock, fine cabinetmakers' rasps or the new Auriou ones.
Layout blue, paper templates, a Dremel with a slotting disk and three days with a 5 XXS File. And it works beautifully. Worth all the effort....
Firstly, the practical cutting depth of a backsaw is half the plate depth, or you'll mung it. For the work you outline (building a bench in...
Disston 10" steel back No. 4 backsaw with a local hardware store etch: "Bethell & Thurston William St Perth". Never seen a Disston primary line...
I do the bulk of my filing on an ex-mill unit with 16" jaws, but I'd just about kill for an Acme. As long as its solid, I don't care what...
Until recently you could still order spares from Foley. The punch is easy enough to make, the die is another issue. I've made ratchet bars to...
Thanks for considering this, but I managed to make up a suitable gauge by scaling off a catalogue picture. Thanks.
I reckon it's a No. 7 with user applied 'wheat' chip carving. The stuff on this saw doesn't look like the typical Disston rotary- tool carving....
I reckon it's one of the mahoganies, or at least a Caribbean/S American hardwood, and if so, that screams ship's carpenter, boat builder etc.
Yes, a beautiful and very, very unusual saw...for starters, a 30" plate is extremely rare. Agreed, it is a tropical hardwood, though the exact...
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