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St Louis saw sharpen
Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2012 10:43 am
by major_bob
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.
bob
Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2012 3:08 pm
by beeg
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
Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2012 3:21 pm
by major_bob
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.
Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2012 4:27 pm
by garys
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.
Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2012 5:29 pm
by major_bob
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.
Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2012 9:01 am
by tom_k/mo
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.
Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2012 10:04 am
by robinson46176
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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Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2012 10:18 am
by major_bob
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.