Thread: Cool New Hand Tool Game - Play Here

Originally Posted by CameronPotter

Nice guess, but no, this has a fixed direction.

Unless you put a twist in each end of the blade with some pliers...lets you cut in a direction that the frame my not be deep enough.
Mt guess is that the jeweller's saw can be adjusted without steps to any length blade (within it's limits that is)
You can re-use a broken blade...not that I ever have....in 35 years of using them

Regards,
Peter

Is the jewellers saw cutting on the pull stroke and the rest cut on push stroke. cheers john c

Originally Posted by lightwood

Unless you put a twist in each end of the blade with some pliers...lets you cut in a direction that the frame my not be deep enough.
Mt guess is that the jeweller's saw can be adjusted without steps to any length blade (within it's limits that is)
You can re-use a broken blade...not that I ever have....in 35 years of using them

Regards,
Peter

Wooohooo! We have a winner. The silver frame jewellers saw is the only one designed to accommodate broken blades! Very handy considering that I break blades more like once every 35 seconds!!

Over to you Peter.

Originally Posted by CameronPotter

Wooohooo! We have a winner. The silver frame jewellers saw is the only one designed to accommodate broken blades! Very handy considering that I break blades more like once every 35 seconds!!

Over to you Peter.

Who would have thought?
Or should that be Light would (Lightwood) have thought.
Welldone Peter, I didn't know that. I knew they were infinitely adjustable but I just assumed it was for variations in blade length. Broken blades eh? Shame hacksaws are built on that principle as I am the world champion hack saw blade breaker, thinking of changing my name to Morant.

Originally Posted by Caliban

Who would have thought?
Or should that be Light would (Lightwood) have thought.
Welldone Peter, I didn't know that. I knew they were infinitely adjustable but I just assumed it was for variations in blade length. Broken blades eh? Shame hacksaws are built on that principle as I am the world champion hack saw blade breaker, thinking of changing my name to Morant.

I save my broken hacksaw blades and make them into scrapers for roughing up gluing surfaces... But after you have a bunch on those... Hmmm...

I have thought about trying to drill a hole in a broken hacksaw blade before and rig up some kind of wire for tensioning - but it always seemed like too much hard work...

But with the jeweller's saw it is right there and done for you. Also, often you can get by with quite a short blade, so it is OK to use a broken blade.

Originally Posted by Caliban

Who would have thought?
Or should that be Light would (Lightwood) have thought.
Welldone Peter, I didn't know that. I knew they were infinitely adjustable but I just assumed it was for variations in blade length. Broken blades eh? Shame hacksaws are built on that principle as I am the world champion hack saw blade breaker, thinking of changing my name to Morant.

Caliban,
why, after training all the apprentices I have, I hear the nickname I could have used 20 years ago for the kid that broke the most blades...Morant...love it
I buy Vallorbe 4/0 blades in a box of 10 gross...that is a box with 10 packets, each contains 12 bundles of 12 blades...that's 1440 blades. It usually takes me about 6 or 7 years to use the box up...much longer since I stopped employing bench jewellers.
If a kid came to my workshop asking for a job, I sat them at a bench and gave them a coin, usually an old penny, and asked them to cut the 'roo out, or an old florin to cut the queen's head out. How many blades were broken was a good test for potential talent for the kind of skill and control need to make jewellery really well. The first apprentice I took on did it with one blade...he was good!

Regards,
Peter.

Yes
My talent as a smart ar3e is wasted being a school teacher nowadays. What I wouldn't give to be able to treat students like an apprentice when they desperately need it. We have to try appealing to a better nature that doesn't always exist. Not that I'd advocate going back to flogging kids like we got flogged, but sometimes I see my own childhood behaviour being repeated and know what cured me of it, and we're not allowed to do it.
So all my witticisms have to be used here or directed at Tom (Scribbly Gum).
Anyway, glad you liked it, feel free to use it.
I'm sad no-one picked up on the pun on your user name.

Originally Posted by Caliban

I'm sad no-one picked up on the pun on your user name.

Not to worry, it wasn't missed - but "Morant" was a classic...

Light would is, well... Morant was a classic...

Thanks Cameron,
I feel a little bit embarrassed answering a question about jewellery tools
It is my day job
however...a bit of a treat tonight...usual drill...which one is the odd one out, and why?
L to R
Ohio 02, Union 2C, Sargent 707, Siegley SsS 2, Millers Falls 7, Fulton 3708, Marsh M2
Regards,
Peter

Is the third one the red herring? Having such an obviously different blade adjuster/cap iron?

Originally Posted by Caliban

Is the third one the red herring? Having such an obviously different blade adjuster/cap iron?

Jim,
I'm still laughing at "Morant"....
The "Auto set" isn't the "why" that would include or eliminate that plane
So it might be the Sargent...or it might no be...OH well...yes it's a red herring.

Regards,
Peter

Originally Posted by pedder

I don't know if the last one is solved. If not, you may take this as an interlude.



bigger picture on my blog

http://pedder-altedamenauskiel.blogs...erletzung.html

Hi Pedder,

Beautiful collection of saws, I recognise a few there as ones I have seen before that yourself and Klaus have made..

The competition rules are that you have to win a puzzle, before you get to post the next one... so, you need to solve Peter's puzzle first

I have an idea which one is the odd saw out, but I'll save that until you turn comes up.

Regards
Ray

This must be the perfect collection - seven seven inch planes or seven number twos.
Yummy!
Well, the Sargent 707 is certainly the oddest (but coolest) looking, and I was going to choose it for that reason, and of course for the fact that it is the only one with a fixed frog.
But since Jimmy beat me to it I'll go for the Fulton 3708.
I think it is the only one made by another manufacturer - in this case maybe Millers Falls
Cheers
SG

Originally Posted by Scribbly Gum

This must be the perfect collection - seven seven inch planes or seven number twos.
Yummy!
Well, the Sargent 707 is certainly the oddest (but coolest) looking, and I was going to choose it for that reason, and of course for the fact that it is the only one with a fixed frog.
But since Jimmy beat me to it I'll go for the Fulton 3708.
I think it is the only one made by another manufacturer - in this case maybe Millers Falls
Cheers
SG

Tom,
Not the one I was thinking about.
Regards,
Peter