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15th March 2016, 02:45 PM #106
The Disston furnace of the mid 1850s was a conventional style (Bessemer Converter?) . I think there may be some confusion on the way the two types have been described.
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23rd March 2016, 12:40 PM #107
Docking saw solved
I love it each time a mystery is solved.
I have to thank Homesy123 for making available a link to the 1938 Simonds catalogue
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which features the No.348 docking saw...with the perforated handle. Clearly Simonds had dispensed with the more solid handle shown in the handsaw era catalogues (I suspect it was still hollow) in favour of this style at some point between 1923 and 1938.
Simonds Docking saw 1938. Steel perforated handle.jpg
The docking saw was not classed as a hand saw, but in Simonds speak fell in the same category as the one and two man logging saws often, rather confusingly to my mind, called crosscut saws.
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25th March 2016, 03:23 AM #108
Simonds 1912 catalogue
If anybody is interested in the sighting the 1912 Simonds catalogue, they can view it by going to this thread:
Tool Catalogues
See post#6.
My thanks to Homsey123 for posting the link, which will eventually be available through WK Fine Tools.
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14th April 2016, 04:31 PM #109
When size doesn't matter.
For some time my focus was on the size of handsaws. A full size handsaw is impressive. Well for something completely different, how about this one? It was lost for a while but found again today when I cleared out the vehicle so it was clean enough for SWMBO to travel in it tomorrow.
I don't know why she was so concerned as she will hardly notice from the tray .
Smallest Simonds 001.jpg
It's not very big:
Smallest Simonds 003.jpg
This one is intended for a bracelet or necklace. It was probably what every well dressed woman hankered after in the art deco era post ww1, but they also did a tie pin style too. It is gilded. Just charming .
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14th April 2016, 04:33 PM #110
Love it Paul
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28th April 2016, 09:53 PM #111
Back in post #72 we looked at a full sized handsaw that apparently had metal cutting style teeth. I still have not had time to try sharpening the 14ppi saw. It was anticipated that it would not work well. In trawling though some old Disston publications (1917 handbook) I turned this up:
Disston 1917 handbook Type of teeth..png
Once you have clicked and enlarged it you will see they discuss cutting a piece of 2" round bar with a saw like the Simonds saw.
Perhaps it is possible: One day I will try it.
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29th April 2016, 09:51 AM #112
I'm planning to use the Corinox needle file I've been trying to kill to sharpen both my Disston 240 and the Simonds adjustable hang angle metal cutting saw I recently acquired. If anything will kill it, those saws will.
Innovations are those useful things that, by dint of chance, manage to survive the stupidity and destructive tendencies inherent in human nature.
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29th April 2016, 10:14 AM #113
Rob
That will most interesting. I will have to talk to you to see if there any of those small files still available for such sharpening task as this and add it to my order. I have quite a supply of larger files, but the little files are lacking.
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4th May 2016, 03:33 PM #114
Some more information on the Hand Hacksaws, although this comes from the 1926 "Disston Disston Saw Tool and File."
1926 Disston Saw Tool File Book Hand hacksaw.pngDisston Hand Hacksaw Extract from 1926 p2.png
I still have to file the Simonds saw and try it!
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4th May 2016, 07:04 PM #115
So if you stumble on an old 343, you now know it's good for cutting kalamein. "Kalamein"??? Where would I be without Google...
Definition of Kalamein: sheet metal used especially on wooden doors to prevent the passage of fire
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4th May 2016, 07:16 PM #116
Thank Ian
That saves me looking that one up. I had no idea, a concept that in my case is not limited to hand hacksaws and metalurgy!
Stand by for some hand saw rocking information on Simonds still to come!
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I don't want to digress too much with this, but has anyone actually used one of the handsaw hacksaws? Do they work? Because if the new, bow style hacksaws are supposed to be an improvement over those then I feel like we may still have a ways to go...
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4th May 2016, 08:46 PM #118
Luke
That is in fact the crux of the matter. I still have to sharpen my saw to give it a fair test.
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4th May 2016, 09:30 PM #119
341/342 the blade is ground for clearance.
Did they cut the teeth then grind the blade
Or grind the blade cut the teeth then set the teeth ????
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4th May 2016, 10:41 PM #120
Matt
They had a sequence, which I will dig out for you.
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