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
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