Bushmiller
22nd July 2016, 03:54 PM
Just recently I was asked to provide a saw display at our local Historical Society open day, which they hold once a year. They have a few art displays that were more common fifty years ago than they are today and the organisers thought my saws might be of interest.
So I have made up a couple more stands to display the saws instead of a number of tables. As I have to be there all day and there is another display in the future for about three days during the Millmerran Camp Oven Festival, which incidentally is the largest of it's kind in Australia, I started to think, "What if nobody wants to talk to me or ask about the saws?" I thought I'll be standing there like some gormless oaf.
It was then I decided I would do some sharpening too, but my saw vice is wide at 28" and needs to be clamped in a bench. One of my hates is a saw vice that has any "chatter" during filing as I consider that unacceptable. I have a metal saw vice that looks the bees knees, but is really only suitable for touching up an existing sharp saw that has just lost it's edge: The equivalent, if you like, of using a butchers' steel on a knife.
For reshaping teeth I want something rock solid.
So the stand had to be both portable and rigid. This is almost diametrically opposed. This is what I came up with. Try not to laugh. Well maybe a little. It is made primarily from scrap and materials lying around and every piece breaks down into component form.
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The only fastenings are the two pieces of threaded rod that hold the two horizontal beams which clamp the vice.
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The slot at the right hand end is to accommodate the handle. I left the vertical posts high deliberately as I had considered I might want to position the vice higher, but if I decide not to do this I will cut the top of the posts off. I will make that decision down the track.
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This piece of Ironbark acts as a spacer and provides the ledge on which the saw vice rests. It sits on four stainless steel dowels.
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The two footrests are more spacers but are free to slide back and forward to suit a comfortable stance. It also enables the sharpeners weight to be added to the structure.
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You have to have a little bit of bling so the hand wheels are made of three pieces of laminated Forest Red Gum. If I do something like this again, which I probably will, I will make the hand wheel three spokes in this size.
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Individually the parts are manageable. Fully assembled it has some bulk. Extensive use was made of laminating nominally 25mm timbers.
There is an added advantage of this device over clamping it in my workbench. It is that I have access to both sides. In my workbench I have to lift the vice out and rotate it 180degs.
The Open day is this Sunday (23 July) so if you are passing by I hope you will call in. The Historical museum is right on the highway as you pass through. I believe other points of interest will be a blacksmith display.
Call in, please. I will need somebody to talk to :) .
Regards
Paul
So I have made up a couple more stands to display the saws instead of a number of tables. As I have to be there all day and there is another display in the future for about three days during the Millmerran Camp Oven Festival, which incidentally is the largest of it's kind in Australia, I started to think, "What if nobody wants to talk to me or ask about the saws?" I thought I'll be standing there like some gormless oaf.
It was then I decided I would do some sharpening too, but my saw vice is wide at 28" and needs to be clamped in a bench. One of my hates is a saw vice that has any "chatter" during filing as I consider that unacceptable. I have a metal saw vice that looks the bees knees, but is really only suitable for touching up an existing sharp saw that has just lost it's edge: The equivalent, if you like, of using a butchers' steel on a knife.
For reshaping teeth I want something rock solid.
So the stand had to be both portable and rigid. This is almost diametrically opposed. This is what I came up with. Try not to laugh. Well maybe a little. It is made primarily from scrap and materials lying around and every piece breaks down into component form.
388198388199
The only fastenings are the two pieces of threaded rod that hold the two horizontal beams which clamp the vice.
388200
The slot at the right hand end is to accommodate the handle. I left the vertical posts high deliberately as I had considered I might want to position the vice higher, but if I decide not to do this I will cut the top of the posts off. I will make that decision down the track.
388201
This piece of Ironbark acts as a spacer and provides the ledge on which the saw vice rests. It sits on four stainless steel dowels.
388202388203388204
The two footrests are more spacers but are free to slide back and forward to suit a comfortable stance. It also enables the sharpeners weight to be added to the structure.
388205
You have to have a little bit of bling so the hand wheels are made of three pieces of laminated Forest Red Gum. If I do something like this again, which I probably will, I will make the hand wheel three spokes in this size.
388197
Individually the parts are manageable. Fully assembled it has some bulk. Extensive use was made of laminating nominally 25mm timbers.
There is an added advantage of this device over clamping it in my workbench. It is that I have access to both sides. In my workbench I have to lift the vice out and rotate it 180degs.
The Open day is this Sunday (23 July) so if you are passing by I hope you will call in. The Historical museum is right on the highway as you pass through. I believe other points of interest will be a blacksmith display.
Call in, please. I will need somebody to talk to :) .
Regards
Paul