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as for the circular thing - I tried early on to lift on the back stroke of a carpenter saw vs. just letting pressure off. Not for efficiency, but i got tired of gullets emptying over my line. I find...

that was a done thing here also, Ian, when using a two man saw and not having a second man. I'd bet the two man saws are a lot faster than the long one man pushers.

A setup like that also allows...

for frame sawing veneer, you need to have the saw sitting on something vertical under its own weight. a veneer saw will usually be somewhat lightly built. It won't have any trouble clearing chips...

I'm assuming that the saw was lifted for one of two reasons - and also based on two people doing the work with it.

One, possibly to lengthen tooth life, but two, it's actually less work to lift a...

It's definitely bevel - cutting something is part wedging and part severing. I have the scope pictures and ability to take them, but haven't done much picture taking of razor blades outside of...

Disposable razor blades of any decent type are generally polished to a very fine edge. What they're missing is hardness because they're using a base steel like AEB-L or something and leaving it at a...

You've pretty much got it. I think it's still sharpening, but it's actually what sharpening is. considering the state of the edge, what needs to be raised, not violating simple things (no tearing off...

japanning bummer - when I learned to cook varnish, suspected cold japanning is just a varnish that is cooked and also cured right after on the plane. we cook varnishes ahead of time since baking the...

gilsonite you'd probably get away with, but the baking turps and linseed would really stink. But caveat here, I would never do it in the kitchen without steady air movement.

if my wife wasn't...

When i got this frame saw discussed previously in testing rip speed, it was about $65. These things are now about $105 plus tax or plus tax and shipping in the US, which doesn't make any sense to me,...

that's a good conclusion! A lot of length to lose, but it is what it is.

Ian - if I still had one of those old norris blades, I'd dent it and see what it says!!

I've got a spreadsheet of a few of the things I've hardness tested:
DW - Hardness Testing - Google Sheets
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It's possible to shrink grain without too much effort on an enlarged grain steel. It's actually something I can do in about five minutes with an induction forge, you just basically reheat the steel...

https://i.imgur.com/DHeDQxF.jpg (1/10th inch thick steel taken with a cell phone at about 5x magnification - so almost what it looks like to the naked eye - except in reality this just looks like...

Is it laminated? If so, they can be quenched in brine, and really even in water, but quenching in water instead of brine is violent and asking for cracks.

I didn't read this, I learned it. Brine...

at 58 hardness, the blade should've rolled instead of chipping like that unless the grain is very large. If that blade is laminated, it is a water hardening steel, and I think a lot of folks can't...

I think you'll still find your problem solving skills and setting things up useful from a toolmaking and getting tools in shape side of things, though.

Toolmaking is fun.

What we talk about a...

1 hour should be fine for each temper. Really a single temper should do the job as long as the iron gets to 375F and stays there even for half an hour. the tempering schedules usually refer to a...

that's not just a crack issue of tempering, it is a crack in the blade most likely.

What does it feel like when you're honing it? Does it seem hard? if it seems really hard compared to a very...

Hi, Jono - I will say this in all seriousness - for me, it doesn't matter that much. Sometimes I grind with a tool rest set to an angle, and sometimes I leave the tool rest square. When the latter, I...

there are two basic ways to get it on stones. One is to work finer and finer stones on the same surface, which is kind of the dumb way. Why? Because it involves a more expensive media, or one that's...

No experience, but it looks like it might be the thing for my frame saw blades. The ad copy makes it Saud like it'll work on everything but its features make it look like it's for bigger saws.

Thanks, Neil. I appreciate the time you've taken to post. Stan's response to my challenge to find a Japanese rip saw that would match a disston in hardwood really opened my eyes. He had two bespoke...

I've got a few hand made japanese saws and two maebiki. The trouble with the maebiki is the toothline is wide (heavy plate) and they need to have considerable set to prevent bind. The kerf is just...

one more follow up: 2:20 in the other side of the board (this is a junk board that's flatsawn and half sap).

the edges are more like all sap and the effect is obnoxious - grippy. I made one...

summarizing times
* disston 4 1/2 point rip - 2:45 (but the best accuracy and the most physical ease)
* initial cut with frame saw and "aggresivized" teeth on stock blade: 2:45
* Cut after ????...

update on the "trials" here.

I found a rip blade for a 3 foot frame saw that I made, and that rip blade is slightly finer tooth than my 2 1/3rd tooth per inch typical in the three and four foot...

Jono - these will help you reach your goal of getting sharp tools in the near term. i think in the longer term for both purposes you may wish do everything freehand for speed.

We typically...

at some point, you want to maintain square without a fixture - it's just not practical to handle gadgets around the wood you're ripping.

I found trouble not with could i saw squarely any way...

funny enough, there is a thread scrolling down in that forum showing Chris Schwarz describing rip saw positions. I always thought he looked like he was thrashing (mack headley looks nothing like that...

I've done this one as well as the grip toward me. Of course the sitting "toward the crotch" is the one I mentioned earlier, and it is dominant if you are going to be doing a lot of hand work in the...

are you sure it's french polished and not lacquered?

I don't know anything about rejuvenation products - if I had a french polished piano that was looking a little dull, I'd freshen the french...

if it doesn't seem to wear well or needs refreshing, you basically have unlimited times that you can do it.

Sort of the difference between the modern mindset (a finish that lasts forever) and the...

one more follow up before I order 1095 coil and just waste money on this whole project:
* two more cuts over lunch. I'm starting to get a feel for what puts less stress on the shoulders. Some of...

speed test 2 - 5/4 cherry, full thickness (rough) dry, not the hardware store stuff where they tell you it was 5/4 when it was wet, so 1.1" is the rough thickness on the rack.

37" long cut,...

I took a 10 minute break from some intensive data work and cut five or six pieces off of my cherry test board with the frame saw. The kerf is thinner. To the extent that it is, I think it has the...

tried two cuts with this thing over lunch - one with a 1/2" bandsaw blade or 3/8, whatever is in it - that was fast but obviously wandered to an unusable for daily work state x 10.

I usually cut...

I roughed this out this morning with some scrap cherry that I have laying around.

https://ofhandmaking.files.wordpress.com/2024/04/wp-17133682437966346989936027748492.jpg

Put the bolts through...

They're not really going to get what you're doing on SMC. Sometimes you want the arks to cut faster without having to go to another type of stone - at least not below a fine india.

There is a...

I'd say it's mid to late 1800s just as a guess. All of my English saws still have split nuts and a stamped plate and those nice heavy medallions.

I've had gobs of synthetic stones, and would never give up a set of arkansas stones with loose abrasive to go with it for any of them. That includes naniwa's best and shapton's best.

Really...

I think you'll find that loose finish grit is the only you'll tolerate unless you come across an IM 313. You can put silicon carbide grit on a fine india in an IM313 and then eliminate it pretty...

stylize it a little and start a revolution!!

Holding onto the bottom of the handle for a lot of work will rub my hands a little but, but I have a bunch of the cheap "mechanic's gloves" around the...

next thing to do is take the operation to a similar physical form with the disston saw. the only rub is...the rub. raking the disston saw from the handle puts your hands ahead of the blade and I...

there are demonstrations of a pitsaw of that type from williamsburg here in the states. I haven't seen a frame pitsaw. since the pitsaw is used vertically with someone pulling at the bottom, maybe it...

There's something else he's doing that I do and have seen at least a dozen comments about "no real woodworker doing it". But that comment is always made by someone who has no clue about planing...

my device earlier would not allow me to give a link with a time stamp.
Caspar Labarre Beelden Werk.avi - YouTube

Watch the shaving coming out of the plane. Everything I figured out in isolation,...

https://i.imgur.com/Wk0Llab.jpg

you may not be surprised to find that I've made (from scratch) one of these frame saws -I made a test saw, which is shown here, hand filed the blade and then made a...

Caspar Labarre Beelden Werk.avi - YouTube

He's planing with the chipbreaker near the end.

Yes! Thanks for finding that. Now I want to do it. Notice how much more authority he has with the saw.