mahking51
Established Member
Hi all,
Having been amazed at some of the saws by he who must not be named (Lord MWdemort) I thought I'd have a go at this car boot 50p cheapie. Turns out to be a US saw by R.H Davis; blade is 20cms long with a 4.5cm depth of cut.
It was very dirty and the handle loose and covered in paint. Sadly I did not take a before pic.
I dismantled the handle and cleaned the blade with 0000 wool and mineral spirits; scraped the crud and paintfrom the handle to reveal it was beech underneath. I then sanded the flat portions of the handle with a flat block and the curved bits with a dowel and paper down to 320.
It was then time to give the old mince pies a bit of a workout, the blade is 12 tpi and a lot of the teeth were flat , some high, some low.
The main thing that was odd was that they all looked as thought they were filed at a uniform angle of abour 60 deg or so. There did not seem to be any set at all. I guessed they were rip not xcut.
I ran a mill file across the tops a couple of times until I got small flats, then picked a file that looked about right and refiled each gullet half way then turned round and did the other half. Looked OK and did not take too long.
having never used a saw set before I tried to set the Stanley 42 to it least agressive setting and very gently squeezed every other tooth trying to keep th preseeure the same.
To my astonishment this seemed to work well and when the re shellacced handle went back on the saw cuts oak very fast with a nice thin kerf that is only a bit thicker than my LN dovetail.
Here she is:
Overall did not turn out to be as much of a drama as I thought it would be; I realise now that the settings for the teeth are way off what they should be and will have another go at trying to get a more conventional result. Lot of fun and learnt that you must try these things.
Regards to all.
Martin
BTW I got rid of the loose handle problem by grinding the threads of the screws down a bit to pull tighter.
Having been amazed at some of the saws by he who must not be named (Lord MWdemort) I thought I'd have a go at this car boot 50p cheapie. Turns out to be a US saw by R.H Davis; blade is 20cms long with a 4.5cm depth of cut.
It was very dirty and the handle loose and covered in paint. Sadly I did not take a before pic.
I dismantled the handle and cleaned the blade with 0000 wool and mineral spirits; scraped the crud and paintfrom the handle to reveal it was beech underneath. I then sanded the flat portions of the handle with a flat block and the curved bits with a dowel and paper down to 320.
It was then time to give the old mince pies a bit of a workout, the blade is 12 tpi and a lot of the teeth were flat , some high, some low.
The main thing that was odd was that they all looked as thought they were filed at a uniform angle of abour 60 deg or so. There did not seem to be any set at all. I guessed they were rip not xcut.
I ran a mill file across the tops a couple of times until I got small flats, then picked a file that looked about right and refiled each gullet half way then turned round and did the other half. Looked OK and did not take too long.
having never used a saw set before I tried to set the Stanley 42 to it least agressive setting and very gently squeezed every other tooth trying to keep th preseeure the same.
To my astonishment this seemed to work well and when the re shellacced handle went back on the saw cuts oak very fast with a nice thin kerf that is only a bit thicker than my LN dovetail.
Here she is:
Overall did not turn out to be as much of a drama as I thought it would be; I realise now that the settings for the teeth are way off what they should be and will have another go at trying to get a more conventional result. Lot of fun and learnt that you must try these things.
Regards to all.
Martin
BTW I got rid of the loose handle problem by grinding the threads of the screws down a bit to pull tighter.
