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St Louis saw sharpen

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I know a couple of you guys live in the St. Louis area. Do you know of anyone that will joint, sharpen and set hand saws ? I have a 3 flea market "treasures" that need restoration.

There are several online sources, but local would save me the shipping cost.

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The last time I had a hand saw sharpened, I just took it down to the Ace hardware store in about 1980. What kind/brand are these saws? What shape are they in? Here's two sites I found for sharpening.

http://www.thesawwright.com/Services.html

http://badaxetoolworks.com/bad-axe-rest ... vices.html

And here's one about restoring hand saws.

http://wkfinetools.com/tRestore/saw/saw ... -index.asp
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I'm familar with Mark and his Bad Axe Saws. He would be my first choice if I can't find something local.

I have two Diston's (a rip and cc) and a 16in Kleen Kutter back saw. I have sharpened rip saws before and can probably handle that one myself. I would especially like to have the back saw professionally done.
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For hand saws, I just put them in the vise to hold them and take a small triangular shaped file to them. Then, if you don't have enough set in the teeth, you can correct that with a hand held tooth set tool.
I watched my Dad do it 50 years ago, so I just do it myself now.
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garys wrote:For hand saws, I just put them in the vise to hold them and take a small triangular shaped file to them. Then, if you don't have enough set in the teeth, you can correct that with a hand held tooth set tool.
I watched my Dad do it 50 years ago, so I just do it myself now.
I have a saw vise, files and set tool. Don't mind maintaining the saws once professionally tuned.
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Last blades I had sharpened I took to Branneky Hardware at St. Charles Rock Rd. and FeeFee. The person they work with did a good job.
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Files are something I need to add to my hardware shopping list. I have a lot of them but most are getting pretty old and are getting fairly dull.
I have some that date back to the 1930's and 1940' (from my father and grandfather) and some of those are still decent but not many.
A new file feels almost as good as a new pair of socks... :)
I have a couple dozen + regular handsaws that I want to refurbish this winter. Some are pretty badly rusty but most just need light rust removal and a quick file touch-up. I also have about a dozen key-hole saws and a maybe dozen back-saws. I cleaned up and waxed the back-saws last winter.

It's kind of funny that now that I finally have about all of the power tools that I always wanted that I am now becoming more drawn to the hand tools. Not that I will ever abandon the power tools but I do like to do small stuff using hand tools.


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Francis,
I've spent way too much money on high quality new tools (veritas for example), yet find my favorites are still 100 years old.
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