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I purchased this saw a bit back from a local flea market. It was labeled as a small tenon saw. When I bought it, it was filed crosscut. I am heavily influenced by Paul Sellers. I will be forever grateful to him, as I have always wanted to work wood with hand tools, but he was the first person I ever saw who explained and demonstrated the techniques in a way in which my brain said, "Hey, I can do that". Most of what I know I learned from him, and the rest, where i differ is ways I have learned that suit the way I think better. Sellers is an advocate of rip saws when it comes to joinery saws, however, i have seen him use a carcass saw that I'm pretty sure is filed cross, I can't prove that, though. I think he advocates rip because it is easy to resharpen for a beginner, but I think in practice he diverges a bit. I said all of that because it is relevant to the topic at hand. Up until now, all of my joinery saws have been rip, and they have worked well for me, so i filed this one rip as well. But in daily use i began to wonder, "Why in the heck do I need three separate joinery saws filed rip?" I'm a voracious consumer of any media involving hand tool woodworking I can find, so i know that traditionally joinery saws were both ripcut and crosscut, So i decided to convert this saw to crosscut, and so far I'm glad i did. It wasn't easy, though. If you look at the saw sharpening videos on Youtube you will usually see these guys demonstrate passing a file through the teeth about twice and calling them good. Okay, Billy Bob. I literally had to sharpen this saw about 5 times until I got it where it was cutting to my satisfaction. The conclusion I've come to is that they are sharpening saws whose teeth are already in good condition; this one needed much more work. The handle is a bit blocky and does not fit my hand all that well, so in future I will most likely alter it a bit. The saw as far as I know holds no value as a collector or a piece of history. There are no maker's marks, branding, nor anything else. It's just an average saw for the average man, so I'm not worried that this average woodworker is going to ruin anything by altering it to fit my hand better. All in all, I'm glad i hung in there and got it right.
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From the album: A Wedding Cross
Some very fine nice and straight lines.- 2 comments
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Well I was assigned the duty of Wedding Cross Maker, our oldest girl is tying the knot with her fiance on October 1st. And being the woodworker of the two clans, of course folks would be expecting me to step up! It's a fun project, basic, simple, I'll sand to 800 then 1200 abralon, and a wipe on finish, the cross will have a base, and they are going to wrap a garland of flowers over half the cross, it'll be beautiful. Thanks for looking!
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From the album: A Wedding Cross
My beautiful Lie Nielsen Carcass saw, staying in the marked out lines, this saw is a pleasure to use. A little trick I learned is to keep the reflection of the board on the saw, straight, this indicates you are cutting down straight.
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