I’m no longer making saws
Well, I’m no longer making saws this festive pagan, atheist ,capitalist season.because I’ve nearly run out of fun time and will be back at work on Monday.
I had every intention of starting and finishing this saw these last few weeks.
Sally ,even casually asked what I planned on doing on the hoildays, as we were going to spend it in the steel palace.
For which I proudly announced ,like a good Boy Scout in a high voice “I’m going to make a saw”
I planned a music list to inspire me, but ,I will leave this out, unless your into proper old school punk[emoji849].
So ,first up was my OTT Saw back this was taken down from the shelf and dusted off.
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Some of you may remember that, some of you mocked me and thought I had completely lost the plot and gone to the funny farm.
Well ,it gets even worse ,I saw the files again,
Well one thing led to another, then I had a drink, just to be sociable of course.
Then I really got started with the saw back(evil laugh [emoji38])
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We stopped here before I ended up with two brand new saw backs for very short ladies and gentleman saws.
This will eventually be polished to the point were I can reflect light rays back to the mother ship.
Next out came a very nice piece of red gum, that looked very similar to the handle below.
But ,ended up with to many checks ,so that was canned before I got any further into it.
Next came out this lovely piece of I think Silky Oak.
I think !! because unfortunately some of the timber in my possession, comes with out little marks or writing telling me excalty what type of timber it is.But I’m working on that very diligently.
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This is the other end of the board I cut the handle blank from.
So after lots of pondering at the piece of timber, I checked through my random google pics of saw handles ,I like ,I ended up with this.
I generally start to trace a saw handle from one of few dozen saws I have, and then modify it free hand and with the aid of set of French curves till I get what I feel is a pleasing looking handle.
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For some unknown reason , the handle actually looks quite chunky or bloky around the grip in the pics.
But , it is actually quite round which is how I like them feeling.no Mr bushmiller this is not a que to insert something rude.
There’s quite a bit more work to go, I want to refine the handle a bit more and clean up a few more areas that I’m not showing you in pics [emoji849].
I need to make some saw nuts on the metal lathe.
For which I’m sure I will possibly go a bit OTT on just because I can, they will be turned up in mild steel as well.
Because well , this will upset some of you purists I’m not a huge fan of brass[emoji20].
Then , I have to sand the handle to about 400 grit and finish that,
Not sure whether to use a high gloss finish,oil or wax on this one?
But , I’m leaning towards the full gloss finish.
Then ,there’s the saw plate to attend to, and of course to file the teeth in, and sharpen it up for which I’m massively out of practice on 14 TPI Rip.
So now the extended plan is to have this one finished before the end of the year [emoji849][emoji849].
Cheers Matt.
More to come soonish!
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