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1st February 2016, 09:24 PM #1
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Trash or Treasure?
One of the joys of clearing up my shed is looking, sometimes for the first time, at tools bought, gifted and found, that have been hiding in dark corners of the shed, almost forgotten. I have 2 old canvas saw holsters and today I opened the smaller. These 2 were lurking within.....
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.... I can't wait to open the BIG one!
flettya rock is an obsolete tool ......... until you don’t have a hammer!
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1st February 2016, 09:51 PM #2
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Treasure.
Disston blade is somewhat used up but handle is good.
Sandvik red handled saw is a good saw
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2nd February 2016, 08:16 AM #3
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+1 to what Pac man said.
"Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen."
Mark Twain
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2nd February 2016, 08:27 AM #4
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That's a much-loved Disston, alright! Seems like it had a reasonably careful, as well as busy owner.
It looks to me like it's progressive-pitch, too, or is that just camera distortion?
Cheers,IW
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2nd February 2016, 09:21 AM #5
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I THINK it's not parallel with the background and so the shadow has distorted the pitch? I'll check when I get home.
Originally Posted by IanW
a rock is an obsolete tool ......... until you don’t have a hammer!
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5th February 2016, 07:09 PM #6
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Alan
I think the Disston (D8?) has had quite a few sharpens judging by the depth, but providing the saw plate has retained some rigidity it should still be very serviceable.
I don't know much about Sandvik except that out of the modern saws I think it is one of the better brands, primarily because of their steel. I think it would be from around the 1980s. I say that only because I have a similar 277 model, which as it happens is the only hand saw I bought brand new from the shop and it was about 1981 that I did that.
I just went to check it and it is indeed the same model number but not identical to yours in that the etch is different. It has the same plastic handle, which is probably the biggest detraction, but I believe Sandvik used plastic handles extensively. Your saw is a nicer looking example than mine.
Oh, and I happened to check out the handle and on the back was still the price label. $53.
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5th February 2016, 07:28 PM #7
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Originally Posted by Bushmiller
That was a fair wad of cash to lay down for a saw in 1981, Paul. You must've been pretty serious about saws even then...??
Cheers,IW
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5th February 2016, 09:10 PM #8
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Ian Originally Posted by IanW
That was a fair wad of cash to lay down for a saw in 1981, Paul. You must've been pretty serious about saws even then...??
Cheers,
I am a serious person.
The passion was latent back then: In fact it was deeply hidden and remained so for the next thirty years!
I suspect that I didn't pay full retail price for the saw. My reading of the label seemed to suggest that it had been marked down. That would have been more my scene and more to the point my budget back then.
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