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Re: Tools: Making tools
By:Charlie
Date: 5/9/2013, 5:47 pm
In Response To: Re: Tools: Making tools (Matt Jakubek)

I don't make saws and I'm not taken with Japanese style tools. I buy old rebuildable tool, like hand saws and bring them back. The trick is you have to know how to join, file and set saw teeth which only requires a modest amount of equipment. A saw vise, also bought for a couple of dollars, an array of saw shapening files in the various sizes and a setting tool. I've got one saw that looks to be abou,t 100 years old. The cutting edge was curved from having the middle sharpened over and over but not the ends. When I joined the teeth some on the ends almost disappeared. There was alot more filing than I had bargained for but everything came out all right. I wish I had learned to do this years ago.

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Malcolm Schweizer -- 5/9/2013, 1:01 pm
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Malcolm Schweizer -- 5/9/2013, 1:12 pm
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Matt Jakubek -- 5/9/2013, 1:28 pm
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Etienne Muller -- 5/9/2013, 3:23 pm
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Matt Jakubek -- 5/9/2013, 3:26 pm
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Charlie -- 5/9/2013, 5:47 pm
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Malcolm Schweizer -- 5/9/2013, 8:24 pm
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Paul Sylvester -- 5/10/2013, 12:17 am
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John Messinger -- 5/9/2013, 6:05 pm
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John Messinger -- 5/9/2013, 6:23 pm
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John Messinger -- 5/9/2013, 6:42 pm
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John Messinger -- 5/9/2013, 7:19 pm
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Malcolm Schweizer -- 5/9/2013, 8:33 pm
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Malcolm Schweizer -- 5/9/2013, 8:18 pm
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John Messinger -- 5/9/2013, 7:25 pm
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John Messinger -- 5/9/2013, 7:58 pm
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Malcolm Schweizer -- 5/9/2013, 8:37 pm
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John Messinger -- 5/11/2013, 6:16 pm
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ancient kayaker -- 5/12/2013, 12:10 am
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John Messinger -- 5/12/2013, 7:45 am
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Kevin -- 5/12/2013, 9:57 am
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ancient kayaker -- 5/12/2013, 10:12 am
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ancient kayaker -- 5/12/2013, 10:10 am
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JohnAbercrombie -- 5/12/2013, 12:50 pm
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ancient kayaker -- 5/12/2013, 1:40 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 5/13/2013, 12:12 am
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ancient kayaker -- 5/13/2013, 10:31 am
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JohnAbercrombie -- 5/13/2013, 12:04 pm
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Noel Bennett -- 5/9/2013, 11:13 pm
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Malcolm Schweizer -- 5/10/2013, 1:32 am
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Etienne Muller -- 5/10/2013, 3:34 am
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ancient kayaker -- 5/10/2013, 9:10 am
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Mike Bielski -- 5/10/2013, 12:45 pm
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Bill Schill -- 5/15/2013, 5:19 pm