Saw Repair

[G S Haydon]

Picked up an Atkins a while back. Sadly it turned up with a broken handle, eBay, it happens! Just tidied it up. Making a saw vice at the moment as I don't care much for the Woden one I have.

 

[Derek Cohen (Perth Oz)]

Nice work, Graham. That’s a tricky glue job. The result looks perfect.

Now to sharpen the teeth?

Regards from Perth

Derek

 

[Orraloon]

Lots would have binned that so well done. Its a nice old saw and deserved a second go.
Regards
John

 

[peterw3035]

That's a really nice job, the restoration and recovery of old saws is fascinating. I've just started work on some myself, just got to get my main bench built first. Well done

 

[G S Haydon]

Thanks everyone. Derek, the glue lines are visible if you know where to look but they are okay. Yes, sharpening next. I'm making a vice before I do. I don't like my Woden brand one. You can't do the whole length of the saw without stopping and starting. I'm not a maestro with a file so I like to have the odds in my favour.

John, the breaks were nice and clean which really helped. Next time I would only glue one piece at a time. It was much more slippery with the Epoxy applied. I used a 90min version so I had plenty of open time.

Thanks Peter. My skills with saws are pretty mediocre. Clean up and sharpen is about I do at the moment.

 

[peterw3035]

I'll be interested to see your saw vise once you get it built

 

[IWW]

This is my first attempt:
It holds pretty well (after I planed a slight concavity in the jaw faces). It's a juggle with wooden jaws to cut out the ends enough to accommodate handles without loosing stiffness. With a couple of my very small saws I just take the handles off, it's easier.

The nice thing about wooden vises is they are so much quieter - I've only used a couple of metal vises and both were screechy - are they all like that? Someone gave me some thick aluminium bar quite a while ago & I've been thinking about making a new vise using the aluminium for jaws, but it has remained low priority 'cos this one gets the job done & the only time I think about it is when I have to sharpen one of the more awkward small saws, so it may never happen...'

Cheers,