Thread: Saw Filing Practice Strips?

I had not heard of such a thing, but this is what has shown up on an Ebay listing. The seller says that initially he thought they might be samples:

Disston practice strips 8 inch.jpgDisston practice strips.jpgDisston practice strips point size.jpg

I think there is a range of tooth pitches from 5ppi through to 10ppi. Seven in all. This is the listing coupled with a rather hefty, and to my mind, optimistic price (US$1000). As I had never heard of them before, they may have a rarity value. Desireability is a different matter:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/L2162-Antiq...19.m1438.l2649

However, there was another similar plate from Atkins. This was more specific in the etch and does indeed describe it as a practice strip:

Atkins practice strip.jpg

https://www.ebay.com/itm/L2163-Antiq...19.m1438.l2649

This single plate is only US$129.99

It does not look as if the teeth have any fleam on them (even the finer crosscut profiles) so perhaps the intention is indeed to file away on these plates. I thought they would be perfect as a template for filing in new teeth or checking that future filings have not drifted too far from the original. A further thought is that they may have been used in the manual arts training schools.​

Anybody seen these before? Oh, and please feel free to buy as I would have to grit my teeth and dig deep at even one tenth of these prices.

Regards
Paul