Gracious Galoots,

Okay, so I buy saws.  Are they pretty and ready to go?  No, but man, I just
can't stop thinking about all the dreck that's available in what passes for
the typical hardware (local) store, much less the BORG or your regional
variety of big-box store.  Are these classy, the ones that follow me home?
 No, but I like to clean them, restore the handles, and sharpen them to the
best of my ability.  Then I play musical chairs with the other saws in my
saw tills, trying to decide which ones to have at hand.  The few of you
who've been to my shop know that I have some saws.  (By the way, you are
all welcome, anytime.  Seriously.  There's a cold one or two in the fridge,
coffee can be put right up, and I have a place we can sit and contemplate
the vagaries of sloped and non-sloped gullets.)  I have some favorites that
I reach for and others that are going to become favorites, soon.  Why do I
go through all this?  Hard to say.  I just like bringing a decent tool back
to beauty and renewed life.  Some might be worth more than others and I
know I can work myself into quite a lather if I wander over to Daryl's ebay
site or Pete T.'s saw sale page, thinking that that 11 tpi D-23 is going to
be quite the sale...maybe.

Last saw I bought at the flea was a nice crosscut D-8 (8 inside the D) for
$5, just like Tom C. said.  And I went home happy...

Regards,

Dwight


On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 11:15 AM, branson  wrote:

> Yikes!!
>
> >It is interesting that you mentioned this. A couple of weeks ago at the
> M-WTCA meet at Tillers, a guy from Fort Wayne, IN brought a Panther head
> saw that he just bought at a garage sale for $4.00.
>
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