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I’m just about to set about getting my first set of ‘proper’ saws.
The above advice is great especially regarding buying a cheap one to practice your sharpening skills.I’ve seen a cheap one on eBay £9.99. I was wondering if anyone knew the make? I’ve tried looking on the web for it but no joy.
It has a medallion of 2 animals (possible lions) either side and facing a upside down triangle, inside the triangle is an arm holding a pickaxe and the letters L I F A. It also has 1865 on it.Well took your advice and decided to use real wood, i got some old pallet wood from work.
On another note if anyone is quite new to woodworking (planing, sawing, sharpening etc), then I highly recommend doing this retrofitting.
I’ve just done 8 x 24″ and 4 x 36″ clamps using knotty old pallet wood and I decided to handsaw them all, then plane them to fit and due to the knots I had to resharpen too.
All good practice and now I have 12 good clamps (for a bench lamination) and a lot more understanding of how to plane properly (OK just better)!Thanks for the advice Matt & Eddy.
I would prefer to use ‘real’ wood anyway its just I had some lying around.
I did get it to fit! (used a plane though!). I have only fitted 1 with the MDF but due to the advice, particularly the moisture/swelling issue. I will fit the rest with real wood.Thanks for the advice.
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