Alf on the Web!

[MikeW]

Making the pin narrower doesn't alter the angle of its face. I use files which are hardened to rc 72--trust me, they can remove metal off of both the pin and anvil on an Eclipse.

However, as regards the Somax, the anvil isn't very tough. The ones I replace them with, like the Eclipse, are hardened. For the anvil, a belt sander followed by stones makes quick work of it.

One does not want to alter too greatly the parallel back/front, nor remove so much material that all the chamfer is removed.

I didn't get the time to work on one of the Somax sets (which also have a hardened pin, too bad they scrimped on the anvil). But I will hopefully over this coming week.

Altering a Somax only matters for teeth bove about 16/18. Then again, I'm not much a believer in high ppi counts, either <g>...

Take care, Mike

 

[bugbear]

Making the pin narrower doesn't alter the angle of its face.

I know - that's the problem, since my grinding of the anvil is to alter the angle of the chamfer; the front face of the pin needs to match this (IMHO)

BugBear

 

[Alf]

Pedder, see how you go with this - squares are 4mm.

BB, the other BB was indeed the inspiration for that particular handle, but for a wide range of handles from which to choose it's hard to beat yet another BB - Bob Brode. I'm thinking I need to change my initials...

Cheers, Alf

 

[pedder]

ALF,

1000 thanks , this will be a new project.

Bugbear and ALF,

to tell the truth i knew both before, Alf's Handle and Brian Buckner's, because ALF mentioned it in her blog.
But a picture is not the same as a pattern. The center of a picture of a saw isn't the center of the handle.
That's why it's difficult to take a pattern from a picture.

So thanks again, now I know it's not my poor drawing, if it doesn't work.

Cheers Pedder

 

[bugbear]

ALF,
I knew both before, Alf's Handle and Brian Buckner's, because ALF mentioned it in her blog.

Tarnation - I thought I'd spotted something :-(

BugBear

 

[bugbear]

But a picture is not the same as a pattern. The center of a picture of a saw isn't the center of the handle.
That's why it's difficult to take a pattern from a picture.

Ooh, BTW, some graphics packages will do "corrections", including perspective (useful with a "wrong" viewpoint) and barrel distortion (useful when photo was taken with a wide angle lens).

This photo was taken freehand, and was off square, and had barrel distortion. When cropped in close, the difference between square edge of the photo made the errors obvious, until I corrected them.

Of course, controlling these corrections requires some kind of reference information. In my case there were edges that need to be straight and perpendicular to each other, so it was easy.

Including a grid is also (very!) helpful, if not artistic.

BugBear

 

[Alf]

ALF,
I knew both before, Alf's Handle and Brian Buckner's, because ALF mentioned it in her blog.

Tarnation - I thought I'd spotted something :-(

Well if you didn't read that blog entry you still did, didn't you? Just 'cos you weren't the first or it was said somewhere else you hadn't seen doesn't mean you didn't spot it for yourself. I dunno, seems to be a theme these days that you have to say/do/observe something uniquely in the human experience for it to be worthwhile. Terrible habit. You can read that, say, pulling whispy shavings from a finely set smoother is an eye-opener all you like, but to discover it for yourself is still a discovery.

Cheers, Alf

 

[bugbear]

You can read that, say, pulling whispy shavings from a finely set smoother is an eye-opener all you like, but to discover it for yourself is still a discovery.

Cheers, Alf

Don't you mean "epiphany" ?

BugBear

 

[arian]

<snip>

for those of us who don't want to have an (vintage) Eclipse sent from England.

<snip>

Ah now, don't be racist. What's the matter with not sending one from those parts of the UK that aren't England?