Not really in the same league as Alf's piece, but here's an old backsaw that I nearly chucked out when clearing out my old man's garage last year
It's got the old MOD mark on it so not that old or special, such teeth as it had were almost round in many cases :shock: :lol:
Anyway, decided to use it as a practice piece so cleaned up the blade with wet and dry and polished the brass back, refiled and set the teeth to cut rip (first time I've tried that but pretty easy).
Then decided to make a new handle as the old one was really shabby, used some iroko which was a bit boring but was to hand at the time.
Don't think I rounded the handle corners enough on reflection, and the wood looks a bit dark and bland on the saw, but feels comfortable and amazingly cuts very well indeed, so quite pleased all in all.
Then got carried away and decided to attack my old S&J which had a really tacky flat beech handle covered in dark, thick lacquer, so a bit of work on the blade and back, then copious filing and sanding on the handle resulted in this
Still the original handle so not the most elegant shape, but quite pleasing initial forays onto the slippery slope. May use some of the Yandles pau rosa and do a better handle or two now I have some idea of how to go about it.
Cheers, Paul.
