polished saw

[thesupervisor]

does any one khow how to polish a hand saw
i am restoring an oldy and want to have a highly polished saw
also any ideas what to put on the handle?

[Woodlee]

does any one khow how to polish a hand saw
i am restoring an oldy and want to have a highly polished saw
also any ideas what to put on the handle?



Heres a couple of links

http://www.wkfinetools.com/tRestore/saw/sawBlade/index.asp

http://www.norsewoodsmith.com/ww/stairsaw/saws.htm

As far as finishing handles goes Bob Smalser has a good finishing system for chisel handles which I used on my handsaws.Just do a search on the forum ,I think it was tool handles or chisel handles .He also uses Birchwood Casey Truoil which is a gunstock finish sold in gun shops.

I use cleaning vinegar ,available from the super market for getting rust off .Its also good for sharpening files and rasps.

Kev.

EDIT .
I just found this thread , I used the method on two saw handles that Bob L posted in this thread and I extremely pleased with the out come .

[joe greiner]

Aside from appearance and preservation, there's an additional benefit of polishing the blade of a hand saw: When cross-cutting, observe the reflection of the edge on your side of the cut. Try to keep the reflected image in line with the edge on the other side of the blade. Deviations in the reflected image are double the actual deviation from square, and keeping the edge images in line assists in making the cut square.

Joe

[rat52]

Joe,
My grandfather told me to keep my saw blades shiny for the same reason and used it to cut a 45 deg without a mitre box by sighting the reflection until it made 90 deg which meant the saw was at 45 deg:2tsup:

[Woodlee]

Heres a couple of links

http://www.wkfinetools.com/tRestore/saw/sawBlade/index.asp

http://www.norsewoodsmith.com/ww/stairsaw/saws.htm

As far as finishing handles goes Bob Smalser has a good finishing system for chisel handles which I used on my handsaws.Just do a search on the forum ,I think it was tool handles or chisel handles .He also uses Birchwood Casey Truoil which is a gunstock finish sold in gun shops.

I use cleaning vinegar ,available from the super market for getting rust off .Its also good for sharpening files and rasps.

Kev.

EDIT .
I just found this thread , I used the method on two saw handles that Bob L posted in this thread and I extremely pleased with the out come .

I forgot to add the link DUH!

http://www.woodworkforums.com/showthread.php?t=49338&highlight=tool+handles

[thesupervisor]

thanks for all your replies will post before and after pics when i get some time