Thread: How many saws...?

Originally Posted by bridger

isn't that a bugger. pick up a tool you don't really need, just too good a deal to pass on, or free and keep it from the trash bin, or what have you. take it home, it sits around, not being used but you get used to looking at it. you sort of vaguely figure it should get a real purpose or be moved along, and you went to the trouble to cart it home so you try to scheme a real purpose for it. ideas come and go, but the tool sits there, mocking you. finally you decide it just has to go and suddenly it has some twisted sentimental value- it's been sitting in your shop for so long, surely it deserves to stay.

Hmm, this clearly a worldwide syndrome!

Originally Posted by bridger

....but I could quit anytime I wanted to, right?

Of course!
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(maybe......)

Remember ... the first step is denying there is any problem whatsoever.



Paul

But there's always a reason which seems sensible at the time. At that price I might as well get it for the rivets/handle/making scrapers and then it looks too good to scrap so you start again. The same thing happens with planes - buying one for a lever cap means ending up with a boxfull.
I've never seen it as a problem, after all everyone does it don't they? and I don't inhale.
Cheers,
Jim

Tut tut tut

Listen to yourselves. Shameless hoarders! I think, fellow woodworkers, we should be pursuing a catch and release program. If you use it, keep it, if not chuck it back in the stream for the next tool angler.

Originally Posted by Berlin

Tut tut tut

Listen to yourselves. Shameless hoarders! I think, fellow woodworkers, we should be pursuing a catch and release program. If you use it, keep it, if not chuck it back in the stream for the next tool angler.

Me? A hoarder?

Hmm, now you have touched a raw nerve! Heavy culling starts asap.....

Originally Posted by Berlin

Tut tut tut

Listen to yourselves. Shameless hoarders! I think, fellow woodworkers, we should be pursuing a catch and release program. If you use it, keep it, if not chuck it back in the stream for the next tool angler.

I entirely agree Berlin. The only proviso I make is that the prospective owner supply references from both parents and all four grandparents. A satisfactory inspection of their workshop will ensure that they will be taken into consideration should any tool be foolish enough to wish to leave home.
Cheers,
Jim

Originally Posted by Berlin

Tut tut tut

Listen to yourselves. Shameless hoarders! I think, fellow woodworkers, we should be pursuing a catch and release program. If you use it, keep it, if not chuck it back in the stream for the next tool angler.

I am pursuing one - it's just that I'm catching faster than I can release

Originally Posted by Blue-deviled

I am pursuing one - it's just that I'm catching faster than I can release

Exactly - you don't have to release it the next day! Thirty or so years is about right I'd say.


And anyway ... some of those tools ... without the right help ... <sob> ...
could have gone to ... places ... <sob> ... that ...
I can't talk about it.

Paul

Tools are like children, you have to keep them at least 18 years before they're ready to go out and make it on their own. We can't just abandon our children, where's your paternal instinct?

Toby

Now gentlemen, I'm afraid I have to perform my moderator's duty & pull you into line...

Matt asked in the OP for what would be a minimum cohort of saws, and here you all are, encouraging him to amass a veritable collection!

Tut, tut, as the man himself might say.......

Well...
I guess you could get by with a hack saw and a good chisel.

Toby

Originally Posted by TobyC

Well...
I guess you could get by with a hack saw and a good chisel.

Toby

NOW yer talkin'....

Here's the list:

17 tpi 8" dovetail
15 tpi 12" tenon saw (rip)
12tpi 20" cross cut
8tpi 24" cross cut
5tpi 26" rip

Ideally, the 12tpi would be a half back but for now I'll make use of the orphan S&J skew back adopted (took into my brutal Dickensian Workhouse).

I will modify a 20tpi gents' for the Dovetail but i think my tenon saw is ready to be shown the door. If I stick with the Victorian Workhouse analogy, this orphan was left on the steps because it had two left feet and a hand full of thumbs. It needs specialist care and a quiet toolbox at the back of someone else's shed

Chris Schwarz wrote about Matt Cianci : Get Your Saws Sharpened Here | Popular Woodworking Magazine

Who has this blog: The Saw Blog

This Saws-For-Sale section is interesting for info on length/type and sharpening details: Saws for Sale

Paul.