Thread: Hand tool revival

Originally Posted by IanW

I'm not sufficiently familiar with the Stanley family of saw sets to offer any advice on them. There is a myriad of "42" models, but the 42X rather than any of the others, that may be plain "42" or have "s", "w" & sundry other letters in their model number is the one the Stanley aficionados recommend.

I use the "Eclipse" style, not because I think it's in any way superior, it's just what I began with & have become accustomed to. Some people find using the Eclipse more tiring on the squeezing hand than the 42 style. On the Eclipse, the 'top' arm articulates, whereas the opposite arm does on the Stanley, and it's held parallel to the saw rather than perpendicular to it (Eclipse), so they have a quite different action.

You really need a coupe of sets if you are going to do a wide range of saws. The plungers suited to large teeth are too big to fit between very small teeth (anything finer than about 12tpi), so you need to either get a couple of sets, and file the plunger to a more narrow edge on one, or look out for a "blue" Somax. These are Japanese made copies of the Eclipse & come with a narrow plunger that can cope with teeth as fine as 20tpi (with care!). I have a blue Somax & it's every bit as good as the genuine old (pre-1940?) Eclipse I use for the larger saws, so I have no hesitation in recommending it. But if you can't find one, don't worry, get a regular Eclipse or clone & file the plunger finer. The plunger is not hardened & files easily.....

Cheers,

Thanks for you response. I probably should have asked more generally a recommendation for a sawset. I came across a Stanley restore on YouTube but then realised they werent that common.

I have just picked up an Eclipse 77 bronze sawset off eBay as I had one in my watchlist. I'm making a wooden set of vice jaws for my saws raised up from the height of my vice so I should have everything needed to tackle sharpening my two dovetail saws

Thanks for the advice Ian, always valuable

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Has been a while since I've updated this thread. Progress has been slow going but that's partially due to the expanding collection of saws I now have to restore and getting myself setup for maintaining the saws with a vice, teeth templates and plenty of reading oh and also files which I'll be sorting out tomorrow.

I've finally made a start on the set of Jarrah handles now I have a lathe and picked up some brass tubing to make ferrules think it's a little large but should be a good test.

I also stumbled across this ex cabinetmakers saw box with dovetailed drawers ive added to my restoration list. I've picked this up because I just thought it was awesome but also practically to serve as a place to store my saws and files but also to store one or two of those rust preventer shield things in a small enclosure as I'm moving to a coastal area. So will be a good test during my move


Anyway just wanted to update that the hand tool revivals alive and well and keeping me busy. I've restored two or three of the saws lol plenty to go and I'm thinking of making a saw vice to handle all saw sizes I have and to not have to remove the handle if it were to be in the way.

Cheers
Nathan

Nathan.

I think your going to be happily, very busy for the Foreseeable future.

Cheers Matt

Originally Posted by Simplicity

Nathan.

I think your going to be happily, very busy for the Foreseeable future.

Cheers Matt

Ha yes, well you did contribute three of those saws in that photo so I partially and most graciously blame you for enabling this effort

Its good you are moving away - it will give the rest of us a chance of grabbing some saws!



That box is EXCELLENT!

Originally Posted by woodPixel

Its good you are moving away - it will give the rest of us a chance of grabbing some saws!



That box is EXCELLENT!

Haha the internet reaches far and wide. I sent you a some recently if I remember correctly

Originally Posted by delbs

Ha yes, well you did contribute three of those saws in that photo so I partially and most graciously blame you for enabling this effort

Um Ye well see it was you know sort of ok[emoji6][emoji6].

Cheers Matt.