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First yard sales of the season! Wasn’t that great, but a few gems were found. A bundle of saws files, for $0.50, a little rusty, but they will work.
Picked up two full sized handsaws at another sale. $2 each. Got one because of who made it, and the second one because the handle was a close match. Why?
real cuties, right?
Well the top one will be for parts to rebuild the other one. That one just happens to be the first model of skew back saws Henry Disston made, between 1878-1888. Besides, the plate looked better than the “parts” saw. Maybe a mouse needed some iron in it’s diet? Ok, got the tow totes, as they are called off the plates.
Hmmm, a cut here, and a cut there, should do the trick, I think
The D ( no Hyphen) 8 plate cleaned up real nice. More on that later. Made a few cuts to the parts
A ovetail saw to cut what I needed off the parts tote. Needed to miss the lower bolt holes, for a close match
And now the Disston tote. hand plane and files to dress the areas flat. Found a crack in the handle part, and that threw things off a bit
It would have left a tapered gap where one’s hand would be, can’t have that, so
A slaice of Black walnut, shaped to match the gap. By slice, i mean i sliced off a sliver from a 1
Yard sale find, and the rehab
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