Another day in the life of NL
…found myself struggling to top a saw with a 10” flat file from Nicholson. I glanced along the teeth and found it breasted—not what I want on a tenon saw…
…found myself struggling to top a saw with a 10” flat file from Nicholson. I glanced along the teeth and found it breasted—not what I want on a tenon saw…
…war lethargy. Because western saw makers were putting out low quality products and lived off their parent’s reputation, we in the west saw the saw making demise take saw making…
Bahco saw files I felt so confident about the Bahco files that I bought in several. I have always liked the two in one double-ended files because on handsaws and…
…the saw teeth. The file-ability of files once reheated and left to cool without forcing makes the files soft enough to file and hacksaw. You have excellent tool steel to…
…life of the file. Files do wear out through use, but a good file will sharpen many saws. It’s not possible to say how many saws a saw file should…
…less ppi than 10 that we would sharpen cross cut. How do you sharpen a saw? https://commonwoodworking.com/sharpening-a-saw/ Handsaw/Panel saw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA5DixEaaUo https://paulsellers.com/2016/04/get-ready-get-set-got-files-go/ Crosscut saws https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fNosQU1Ujg https://paulsellers.com/2016/04/sharpening-first-crosscut-saw/ https://paulsellers.com/2016/04/s/ https://paulsellers.com/2016/04/crosscut-saw-sharpening-direct-youtube/ How do you…
…blog on Bahco files reports came in thick and fast that it did become more difficult to find the files: hopefully it was some good publicity for Bahco and we…
…quality of their files to sharpen only one saw per file, it becomes financially prohibitive to even own a saw you can sharpen yourself. On top of all that, resharpening…
…and compact bandsaw? I would have no problem living with a compact and inexpensive bandsaw, even one underpowered. A bandsaw like this will not work in a commercial setting, where…
…tapered saw file. Nicholson files work well for this but are not too readily available in the UK. Draper saw files work fine and I have used them here in…