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17th August 2018, 08:42 AM #151
Well it seems pretty plain to me that if you own a company that owns a company that owns a company, you are likely to a) know very little about what your minnow company does, & b) care even less, as long as it adds enough to the balance sheet to make whatever capital you've got in it worthwhile. The folks running the minnow company probably have MBAs, and probably don't know what a hand saw looks like, let alone what sort of file you'd need to sharpen one.
What?? do you mean you sharpen every tooth on that weird thing? By hand? Isn't there an Ap for it?...........
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17th August 2018, 09:21 AM #152GOLD MEMBER
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Online? I just want to print new teeth with whiz bang pure vanadium powder steel and bake the teeth in my easy bake oven....chocolate flavor, so that I break them up and put them on a cupcake as sprinkles once they're worn out!!
I sure do hope LV comes out with the saw tooth 3d printer soon, and I want an intro price deal, too, and a guarantee that I can return it if the chocolate flavoring is off.
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17th August 2018, 11:02 AM #153
All this from a dud file. I hope we have not put the OP (Bendigo Bob) off.
I have not really given any of the Tome Feteira files a go yet as I just pull the first file I come to out of the box, but as I said before, I will be giving them a go soon along with Stewie's Nicholsons. My TFs did indeed come from Michael Merlo (azmica 90405). They were not the only brand I bought as I acquired Wiltshire files from him too. I followed his listings closely: The first sales of files (there have been literally hundreds) were sold for exorbitant prices: > US$120 for a box of 12 4"DEST, for example. However, gradually these prices normalised and by the time he stopped listing files they were around the US$50 mark. He seems to have stopped listing saw files for the moment and even the rasps no longer feature. I suspect, but certainly don't know, that he will list files again one day.
He has a marketing style that is controversial. Some clearly are attracted to it and some revile against the "irreverent" and "controversial" style: I would recommend that we do not get drawn into a discussion of that, but have a look at the consistency and in particular the finish of the saws he sharpens (allegedly without the use of even a file guide). I have a single saw sharpened by him (Disston D-15 Victory 11ppi) and it is exactly the same quality as you see in this pic of an 8ppi Atkins 400, which he currently has for sale:
Michael's 8ppi with sloped gullets.jpg
This is not a promotion of his sales, but a link so you can see for yourselves:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/UGLY-THE-FO...oAAOSwX05bcMNY
I have no connection with Michael Merlo other than being a customer and exchanging the occasional email to point out when he has stuffed up a description (particularly with Simonds and he has quoted my comments at times in his revised description). He is a little more gracious than you might expect, but only a little bit . He is still a little bemused as to how I can possibly sharpen a saw while standing on my head, but thought that the Wiltshire files I bought would probably go a long way to helping that predicament.
Regards
PaulBushmiller;
"Power tends to corrupt. Absolute power corrupts, absolutely!"
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29th August 2018, 09:59 PM #154
I got to partially restoring a 7ppi saw today and took the opportunity to use one of the files Planemaker sent to me.
I used the 7" DEST Nicholson. At this stage I have only jointed and re-profiled the teeth (shaping) I have used approx three strokes of the file on each tooth of the 26" handsaw which I am filing as a coarse crosscut. This is the only edge I have used so far:
P1040227 (Medium).JPGP1040228 (Medium).JPG
It appears to be holding up very well when compared to the unused edges
P1040229 (Medium).JPGP1040230 (Medium).JPG
For a while I was perplexed as the file stopped dead each time i came to the end of the stroke. I thought I must have been hitting the end of the handle, but I realised that was not the case. When I inspected the file with the headband magnifier I saw there was a little piece of metal protruding at the end of the file. It was this that stopped the file. What a great idea. I loved it. I checked other files I had to see if this feature appeared elsewhere. No, none of them had this. What a marvelous innovation. Then I checked the rest of the box and it was the only file that had this. It was a manufacturing defect!!
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Oh yes, the saw is generally regarded as no slouch: A Disston No.12.
Thanks again Stewie. These files (New Old Stock) are excellent.
Regards
PaulBushmiller;
"Power tends to corrupt. Absolute power corrupts, absolutely!"
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