OLD SAW
I am currently having a small crisis.
I dropped my saw!
A common Disston #4 and nothing special at all.
Except I have been using it closing in on 50 years now.
My favorite old, always reliable, saw. The saw that taught me posture 
and stroke and how to saw straight and true.
I dropped it and broke the handle bad and chipped off 2 teeth!
I can carve another handle if I want, (I have since repaired the old 
one). I have jointed and started filing new teeth.
I have much better saws to use and if I totally restore the old one its 
not that good of a saw really.
But I used this one forever!
I learned to file on that saw. I didn't like the lame handle it came 
with, so I restyled my first saw handle on that saw. Filing out the 
details in my crude little wooden shed where I started. Working on old 
tools in the dark ages before practically anyone anywhere cared about 
old tools.
I just can't decide between fully restoring it or moving on to another saw.
For many our age, I am sure most of us have lost many important people 
in our lives. I've lost a lot of them in the last years. Its kind of 
weird being on the other side.
Lived your life. Did the best you could. Saw a lot of water go under the 
bridge. Occasionally over the bridge at floodtimes.
I can repair the old saw but nobody except me would ever care. It'll be 
a 2 dollar saw at a yard sale eventually, same as when I met it, so long 
ago.

yours scott

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    Scott Grandstaff
    Box 409 Happy Camp, Ca  96039
    scottg@s...
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