Thread: A beautiful little saw by IanW

Simply Lovely.
well done Ian and good score Ray.
May you get much pleasure from its use.
All the best
Kevin

Sweet, very sweet, nice work.

Beautiful saw. I am sure you will find a use for that one. Well done all round guys.

Another beautiful saw from IanW.

What a delightful thing to receive, and to use!
Well done to all involved,

Cheers

I like it.

Hi Ray (and all)

Not to reduce your gloat, but rather to add to Ian's rep - and thank him ....

Ian just happened by a few weeks ago - supposedly to attend a conference in Fremantle, but really to have afternoon tea with Lynndy, and then check my workshop for anything new ...

He dropped off a little saw "for nipping ends" (20 tpi crosscut), that could be the twin of yours ... different wood (She-oak) ... so we will call it a cousin ..

I think it is spectacular ... and tiny ...



How tiny? Compare it to this LN dovetail saw ...



Thanks again Ian.

Regards from Perth

Derek

Hi Derek,

Ian mentioned in his letter that you had the cousin, thanks for posting the picture. The she-oak looks perfect, and, is very appropriate for the WA branch of Ian's rapidly growing saw family..

Of course no good deed goes unpunished, .... now where did that 15 thou plate go....

Just another gentle nudge down the slope..

Regards
Ray

Hi Cuz Ray

Between you and Ian, we really do not need "another nudge down the slope", gentle or not!

Regards from Perth

Cuz Derek

Struth - I'll need a head restrainer if you keep this up!

Well, you have to do something with the leftovers. I made the first one of these out of a cutoff I thought was too small to be genuinely useful, & just for fun thought I'd make a working model. Then I found myself repeatedly reaching for the silly little thing to do little 'nipping off' jobs as Ray says.

Sorry about the smallish handle, Ray - I have these girly hands that are <80mm across the palm, & I'm finding it a bit hard to judge what normal hands need for the grip. One of the bonuses (among many) of rolling your own saws is getting the top & bottom horn length & curvature right so that the grip snuggles into your hand like it had grown there. The last couple of saws I made 'to order' missed the mark a bit and needed a touch of horn adjustment. Fortunately, both owners are well & truly capable of doing that, so I hope the saws now fit properly.

The teeth are filed cross-cut, but have less fleam and less rake than I would give a dedicated cross-cut with larger teeth. That, plus the fine set means it will rip thin stock almost as fast as a full rip pattern tooth, so you could use it for shallow rip cuts. However, it is really just a bit of a showpiece - a bit like a Stanley #1.

Apart from nice words, I'm hoping any recipients of my saws will give me critical feedback as well. It's one thing to muck about with tooth patterns and convince myself that this or that is good, but I only do certain types of jobs, and use a narrow range of woods, so it will be useful to hear how these things fare in the wider world, and maybe get some suggestions on what could be done better. Not that I am about to go into production to rival the Wenzloffs - making a living at this game would be very challenging!

And Derek - I did NOT come to have afternoon tea with Lynndy and check out your toolbox - I came to have afternoon tea with Lynndy.......

And many thanks to WW for the lovely bit of Walnut - I'm keepng the best bits for myself - it has some beautiful figure that will flow nicely into a couple of handles - Derek's right, I am skidding down the slope at an ever-increasing rate, it seems...

Cheers,

I'm trying to think of something appropriate to say but "Gorgeous" keeps popping into my head.

I saw some of Ian's planes yesterday and had a go using several of them. All I can say with my limited use of western saws is that they were excellent to use, but having a pretty good eye they are works of art and feel as good in the hand as they look.
And a BIG thank you Ian for spending some time with me sharpening my old saws!

Cheers
Michael

Originally Posted by mic-d

I saw some of Ian's planes yesterday and had a go using several of them.......

Michael, I think you meant to type "saws", though we did get onto that topic, too!

Always good to have a shed visit from another enthusiast. It was ostensibly about saws & saw-sharpening, which we spent some time on, but Michael brought over a couple of planes he's worked on. I was most impressed with the job he's done on the two 4 1/2s he showed me - there is something very aesthetic about those scraped bottoms. He has also done a very nice job on general fettling. We put them through a few paces on some scraps of demanding wood I fished out of the 'shorts' pile, and I was even more impressed with the way they performed. I've always preferred a #4 smoother to its big brother, but these planes had heft & a very nice action. Damn near converted me to wanting a 4 1/2 myself!

Cheers,

Urrgghhh! I'm thinking about planes too much I think I did see saws that made my planes plain

Cheers
Michael