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273707 scottg <scottg@s...> 2021‑05‑16 wistfully
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

-- 
*******************************
    Scott Grandstaff
    Box 409 Happy Camp, Ca  96039
    scottg@s...
    http://www.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/
    http://www.snowcrest.net/kitty/hpages/index.html
273708 Ed Minch <edminch3@g...> 2021‑05‑16 Re: wistfully
I knw the feeling.  Time for this

https://www.flickr.com/photos/ruby1638/12181997165/in/album-72157640235328335/

Ed Minch
273709 Spike <spikethebike@c...> 2021‑05‑16 Re: wistfully
Sounds like my grandpas saw.
 Best, Spike

Sent from the seat of my pants
273710 Scott <scottbgarrison@g...> 2021‑05‑16 Re: wistfully
>
> > 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.
>

She was your first love, she saw you through the lean years and stood by
you giving all she could; whatever you asked if she had it in her. Now that
she is old and broken, it's time for you to show how much you appreciated
her, then, now, and in the future. Fix her up, don't trade her in for the
shiny new young thing no matter how sweet the new one may be.


Yours truly,
the other Scott G on the other coast
273711 Tom Dugan <tom_dugan@h...> 2021‑05‑16 Re: wistfully
Do it.

You know what's right for you.

-T


________________________________
From: oldtools@g...  on behalf of Scott 
Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2021 2:17:37 PM
To: Scott Grandstaff 
Cc: porch 
Subject: Re: [oldtools] wistfully

>
> > 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.
>

She was your first love, she saw you through the lean years and stood by
you giving all she could; whatever you asked if she had it in her. Now that
she is old and broken, it's time for you to show how much you appreciated
her, then, now, and in the future. Fix her up, don't trade her in for the
shiny new young thing no matter how sweet the new one may be.


Yours truly,
the other Scott G on the other coast
273712 Michael Blair <branson2@s...> 2021‑05‑16 Re: wistfully
"But I used this one forever!" 

Scott, that is reason enough to do a full scale restore.  You can't put
a price on 50 years together. 

Mike in Woodland
273716 Richard Wilson <yorkshireman@y...> 2021‑05‑16 Re: wistfully
Scott, 

An old friend that slipped and ended up needing bandages?

Why, you do what any of us would.  You make the handle repair, and re-finish it
so the repair still shows, but it now shows that indefinable something that
comes from a half century of being handled, used but not abused, worn in places,
still shiny where your hands rarely go.

Then you look at the chipped teeth, and say to yourself ‘Do I fettle this out,
or leave it to remind me, each sharpening making it a little less obvious.  2
teeth out of ….   will it make a difference to the utility of my old friend?
It might, depends where the gap tooth is.  Maybe it can stay, or maybe you tell
yourself that you’re just going to bring forward the next jointing.  Replacement
plate, and replaced handle, and its the same saw.

Or not.  Or maybe its retired to the wall or the saw till  still ready to work
if needed, but taking life a bit easier these days, and happy for the new young
kids to go out in the toolbox and show off their hardpoint teeth, until they
lose one and find that there is no return for a hardpoint saw plate.  You lose a
tooth and you’re junk.

Your saw - your choice.   We’re all here for you (and the saw)  The Porch has
always cared for its own, be they flesh or iron.



Richard Wilson
Yorkshireman 




> On 16 May 2021, at 18:02, scottg  wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
> -- 



-- 
Yorkshireman Galoot
in the most northerly county, farther north even than Yorkshire
IT #300
273762 gary allan may 2021‑05‑23 Re: wistfully
Hi Scott!
  
 As clinton used to say: 'I feel your pain'. I DO feel it, though, I'm not just
saying it.

  My 2c? Promote the saw to the best set of scrapers you ever made. Burn the
handle in your fireplace, or in your forge on some special day. If you have a
pot still, you're probably already burning it.... :(

  There often comes a time when you must uncouple the present from the past, and
this may be that time. At my house, among my tools, only tools those whose
provenance precedes mine are preserved at all costs.

Thanks for sharing. 
   
             and all the best to all galoots, everywhere; GAM in OlyWA/USA

"If you were Einstein's father, we wouldn't have the bomb." Peggy Hill
  
    On Sunday, May 16, 2021, 10:10:53 AM PDT, scottg  wrote:
 
 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

-- 
*******************************
    Scott Grandstaff
    Box 409 Happy Camp, Ca  96039
    scottg@s...
    http://www.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/
    http://www.snowcrest.net/kitty/hpages/index.html

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