Thread: 2015

Same to you, Stewie, and to all the other regulars & lurkers in this section of the forum.

May all your tools be sharp, all your wood stable & all your joints be sound, in the year to come.....

Happy New Year from New York.

Cheers
Peter

Happy New Year to All.

2015 is going to be the year I get back to making saws.... ( Now that the chisels are all but done. )

Ray

Happy new year
To all may this be a great year for one and all
Matt

Hi Ray. That's great news. A couple of new backsaw builds is the next thing on my own agenda.

Stewie;

Happy New Year all - from across the ditch.

Cheers, Vann.

Happy New Year, Gents

Hope everything is good for you in the coming 12 months

Me, I hope to finish a few of those projects that I started in 2013 and maybe some started even before that

Happy New Year to the fellow Hand Tool contributors.
I too am looking to do some more back saws this year.
I have just acquired a retoother which I'm hoping should get me more even teeth and save me some money in saw files!

Originally Posted by hiroller

Happy New Year to the fellow Hand Tool contributors.
I too am looking to do some more back saws this year.
I have just acquired a retoother which I'm hoping should get me more even teeth and save me some money in saw files!

Gavin, sounds like you are leaping into the new year, how did you acquire a retoother?

Cheers
Peter

Originally Posted by hiroller

...I have just acquired a retoother which I'm hoping should get me more even teeth and save me some money in saw files!

Hmm, sounds good, HR, but you still have to sharpen, and the lousy files we get now don't make that task easy!

If I'm having a good day, & the light is favorable & I have a good file, forming a set of reasonably good teeth is not too challenging, but cr*p files make the job unnecessarily difficult! I bought a box of Pferd files a few months back, on the basis they were among the best of the bad lot of new files we tested in 2013. The whole damn boxful of them are way too brittle, & I'm using up a whole file toothing a 12 inch saw! The worst part of brittle files is that as the teeth break off, they catch and stick and it is impossible to keep your strokes even and consistent.

'Least that's my excuse & I'm sticking to it....

Cheers,

Hi Ian. I am surprised you wasted your money on pferd.

Stewie;

http://jewellerssupplies.com.au/vall...re-p-1149.html

Here's a special tidbit that you can impress your clever friends with this year...

2015 in binary ( 11111011111 ) is a palindrome.

Originally Posted by IanW

The whole damn boxful of them are way too brittle, & I'm using up a whole file toothing a 12 inch saw! The worst part of brittle files is that as the teeth break off, they catch and stick and it is impossible to keep your strokes even and consistent.

I try to use Nicholson Black Diamonds when I can find them. If I do see them I buy everything I can. Even the Mexican Nicholsons are better than some of the other garbage that's been circulating lately.

Hi Rob. I guess my stash of old stock Nicholson taper files; rust free and in their original boxes; should continue to increase in value.

Stewie;