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Hi you all! I need your advice in order to follow paul series of video. Which brand of panel saw you will buy if you were me?
I prefer cheap tools that works well. I need one rip cut and one cross cut. Till today i tried to saw square and true using frame saw i built myself…but it’s bot so simple to cut square to the line… hence my try to consider good panel saws to do the work. What do you think about?This link might help. http://paulsellers.com/2012/09/buying-good-tools-cheap-introducing-the-hand-saws/
I have a few second hand spear and jacksons I got from Ebay and junk shops.
25 January 2014 at 12:41 am #26486Ebay…Disston and the above mentioned Spear and Jackson are both good choices. If you follow Paul’s progressive rip sharpening, you can get by with only the rip saw for quite a while. I don’t have a single saw that is filed for crosscut. Knife wall and progressive rip sharpening have been all that I have needed so far.
I was surprised at how well a 10 TPI saw worked on the crosscut. With the sharpening method that Paul teaches it works better than some crosscut saws I’ve used. However, if you find a good one at a reasonable price, the saws mentioned are good ones and should be readily available on Ebay or your local antique stores.
Thank you all. On line i have seen too many saws for sale, specially old disston: all seem to be good. Few months ago i payed for two newold tennon saw ; the seller called them perferct. I had to reform the teeth , setting and sharpening.
Could i find online a good tutorial about saw restoring? If anyone want to sell me one of them fully functional out of the box, i will pay for that.Bow, restoring old saws is a fairly simple process. Watch the saw sharpening video Paul made, this will get you on your way to make the saw sharp.
Next you want to clean the saw plate, there’s lots of fuss about the best way to remove dirt and grime. I simply use wet dry sandpaper and a sanding block (just a block of wood about the size of your palm). Squirt some water on the saw plate and sand back and forth along the saw plate. This will remove most of the grime. How far you take this is up to you. I can’t be bothered to make them shiny. Once you done with the saw plate then remove any rough edges on the handle and give it a light sanding, apply Danish oil to the handle and some paraffin wax to the saw plate and your saw is done and ready to use.
The step i encounter much effort is to keep the saw stright: i find quite simple to resharpen the teeth , much more effort is required in my opinion to correctly re-set the saw. Are there any standard set size ???I own two Eclipse No.77 saw set but i feel them quite approximative. Any advice is welcome…
27 January 2014 at 7:38 pm #26668Bow, you could try Lumber Jocks forum and look for Brit, or Don W handsaw restoring,lot of info there.Regards J
You really can’t go wrong for that kind of money can you? I took a chance on a tenon saw the other week and got it for 99p on eBay. I figured at worst it’d be good practice for when I found a decent saw but this one cuts so nicely that I think I can just use what I’ve got now. I hope your saw works out as well for you as mine has for me.
28 April 2014 at 11:01 am #56522thanks guys i’d rather make any mistakes on this than a very expensive saw just need a couple of good mill files now ,its funny how buying something cheap often leads on to buying something not so cheap .
4 May 2014 at 7:19 pm #56738Yes Eddy, I’ve also spent more on saw files (and flat files) than I have on saws. 🙂
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