It's been a very long time since I did any serious sawmaking, for a number of reasons, but over the last couple of weeks, I've been working away on a set of saws for someone, and am fairly pleased with the result. The set includes two tenon saws (a 14" 10 tpi & a 12" 12 tpi), plus a dovetailer (9.5" 15 tpi) and a carcase saw (12" 12tpi).
The two tenons & the dovetail (all ripsaws) are handled in Tiger Myrtle: Family pic r.jpg
The carcase saw is a crosscut, and partly to make it easy to see which is which on the bench, its handle is Flame (Hairy) oak: 12 inch tenon & carcase r.jpg
Each handle is different in its detailing, but also hang-angles have been tailored to suit the main purpose of each saw. For comparison, here are the two 12 inch saws - the tenon saw has a more upright hang to make it suitable for using 200-300mm above bench height; the carcase saw grip angle is lifted, to make it more comfortable when used at bench level: Handles cf.jpg
The Tiger Myrtle has come up rather splendidly, but what a pita it is to get it in a fit state to finish! The wood has a subtle fiddleback figure as well as the 'tiger striping', but that didn't cause much of a problem, it was the sanding scratches! This wood shows every scratch of every grain on a piece of sandpaper, and they are unusually difficult to remove with the following grade. I learned as I went along, & the best way I found was to use a finely-burred small scraper, lightly, after each grade of paper to remove stubborn scratches. That got me to the surface I like to have the quickest. By comparison, the Flame Oak took less than half the time to finish, after initial shaping.
Cheers,
The two tenons & the dovetail (all ripsaws) are handled in Tiger Myrtle: Family pic r.jpg
The carcase saw is a crosscut, and partly to make it easy to see which is which on the bench, its handle is Flame (Hairy) oak: 12 inch tenon & carcase r.jpg
Each handle is different in its detailing, but also hang-angles have been tailored to suit the main purpose of each saw. For comparison, here are the two 12 inch saws - the tenon saw has a more upright hang to make it suitable for using 200-300mm above bench height; the carcase saw grip angle is lifted, to make it more comfortable when used at bench level: Handles cf.jpg
The Tiger Myrtle has come up rather splendidly, but what a pita it is to get it in a fit state to finish! The wood has a subtle fiddleback figure as well as the 'tiger striping', but that didn't cause much of a problem, it was the sanding scratches! This wood shows every scratch of every grain on a piece of sandpaper, and they are unusually difficult to remove with the following grade. I learned as I went along, & the best way I found was to use a finely-burred small scraper, lightly, after each grade of paper to remove stubborn scratches. That got me to the surface I like to have the quickest. By comparison, the Flame Oak took less than half the time to finish, after initial shaping.
Cheers,
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