Thread: Christmas came early!

Lucky you!! Great gift from a generous fr4iend.

What a beautiful saw! Half your luck!

Wow that really is something, You must be over the moon with that.

A beautiful addition to your arsenal of DT saws, Derek.

I look forward to your reporting on how well it cuts!

IanW - how about a WIP on one of these?

What a beautiful saw, and a very generous gift. Ian is indeed very talented it he can whip on of these up. The fiddleback on the handle is stunning!

Originally Posted by derekcohen

Note my initials on the screw!!

There goes the resale value

Cheers,
Dave

Hmm, well, I feel a bit embarrassed, but of course enormously relieved & very satisfied that the saw has met with approval by its new owner. Particularly when I know full well he could make a better saw if he ever put his own not-inconsiderable talents to the task.

Derek neglected to add that the saw is part gift, part trade, for a couple of items I have been searching for - so not ALL altruistic. However, I couldn't resist adding the flourish & personalising it on discovering he's about to join the over 60's club (and a very venerable band we are...)

Jeremy - there have been quite a few postings by myself & others of each of the processes involved in sawmaking, but you would have to search through several threads to find them all. I'm about to start some eagerly awaited holidays tomorrow so what I could do is put together a PDF with a a set of pics of the various steps & some explanations of how I go about it. It's not terribly difficult to make a decent saw, my first attempt worked pretty well, certainly enough to encourage a second try (then another & another... ).

I've become very interested in tooth profiles & types & what works best where. There are so many variables to explore, in so many different situations, & I haven't enough years left to do it, myself. So get cracking, the rest of you, forget about humdrum old handplanes & start fooling about with small saws - there's MUCH more to debate & argue about in saws!

Cheers,

Originally Posted by Ozkaban

There goes the resale value
Cheers,
Dave

Didn't think of that! Oh well - the rellies will just have to accept $5 instead of 10 at the clearing sale.....

Hey Derek and Ian,

What a beautiful saw, if one of those come to my house it would go straight to the Bar Room (Too nice to get Sawdust on)

HazzaB

Perhaps the wood was Rose She-oak.

Colen Clenton does some work with it.

Very nice regardless.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allocasuarina_torulosa

Hi Ern

That was my thought as well. And in fact it has a wonderful rose hue.

Perhaps Bob will see this thread and post.

Regards from Perth

Derek

Definitely Rock, I have used a fair bit of it. (from memory my lot came from Pingelly)

BTW fantastic saw. Lucky bugger

Rock Oak, Allocasuarina Huegeliana. It grows in WA

Originally Posted by Lignum

Definitely Rock, I have used a fair bit of it. (from memory my lot came from Pingelly)

BTW fantastic saw. Lucky bugger

Lovely saw Derek. And thanks for sharing.

Wood's from Pingelly you say? May have to pay my old Mum a visit! Anybody got a link or photos so I know what the tree looks like?

Cheers
OG

Originally Posted by derekcohen

That was my thought as well. And in fact it has a wonderful rose hue.

Um, some of the colour may be because I gave it a lick with some orange shellac before finishing with Shellawax, Derek. I happened to be doing some French polishing, so put a light seal coat on the handle while I had the rubber in my hand. It was then finished off with Shellawax & a good polish on a cloth wheel.

I forget where Bob said the tree came from, but apparently it's mentioned in one of his posts on timber-getting. His ID is likely to be correct ( & what FC says). The sample I worked with is nothing like Rose She-oak (A. torulosa) which I have handled a bit (like a few hundred cords ).

In any case, it was very nice stuff to work with, & scrubbed up not too badly. Its only fault is it seems to be prone to internal checks - I went to cut another handle from the same piece & found an ugly great split that wasn't at all evident fom the surface.

Cheers,