Thom comments on holding saws with marbles:
> I've got one of these things and don't like it. Maybe it's poorly done
> or designed (got it from my FIL) but it won't hold all saws reliably.

Perhaps it would work better with rubber marbles.

-Bob Key.
-which I accidentally posted my first response to Sam's sawtill
taunt to the Patrick O'Brian list, and they didn't know quite what to
make of it.  Surreal, it was.