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I love this place more and more, quick replies with very comprehensive information 😀
And such a nice community on the internet in this day and age is fairly rare.Thanks for that info Larry (and the quick response), strangely enough both saws seem to have been sharpened for cross cutting at some point, trying to crosscut at 5 tpi was a surprise after using a lovely sharp Tenon saw (12 tpi).
Incidentally I also found another saw plate last night which appears to have been cut down previously, the proportions on the blase seem very strange (to my very limited experience). On closer inspection it seems someone may have cut the toe of the blade of at some point.
This has a kink about 4 inches in from the end of the blade, almost as if someone has put the blade into the cut and then rolled the top of the saw over. As the blade was free I’m not too worried about paying to get it fixed. I have tried the bending the blade method Paul shows for fixing saws but the kink / bend is too localized for that. However i was wondering if there was any point clamping it between 2 thick pieces of wood and trying to cut off the bottom of the blade and start again. I was thinking that the wood would stop the blade flexing as I saw much like when saw sharpening and currently the saw is useless. It will be interesting to see what you guys think.
Hmmm good ideas, I will see if there are any horses near by, if not it looks like I will have a lot of presents to make to use up all of those shavings.
At the weekend the workshop had its first casualty, one of the plastic saw horses I have been using as a temporary bench collapsed as I was planing the end grain of the benchtop. A spare length of 2 x 4 and some clamps soon had it back in action but I think once the bench is done I will make some wooden ones following the design Paul has blogged about before.
I did manage to get the first few mortices cut though, I’m really happy with them, they are not perfect ( maybe Pauls masters would say a rat chewed them out ) but they line up in the middle of the legs and have no steps in the walls.
Thank you, the bench is coming along great. Its taking a while to plane everything down to remove the round edges but I’m getting there.
And yes it will be in projects as soon as I can get a camera to get some pics of it. Some people have said I will get lonely living on my own but out in the workshop / garage time just seems to fly by.
I do have one question tho …. does anyone have some useful ideas as to what to do with the shavings, so far I have two large bin liners full and it seems a waste just to take them down the tip.
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