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We Don't Need No Stinkin' Backsaws
There is great debate among the Saw Nerds (I’m a card-carrying member) about when the backsaw came into this world, kicking and screaming and whipping its lamb’s tongue to and fro. Historic documents...
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I Found a Use for my Lower Horn
WARNING: The following blog post has been rated PG by the Society for Reverence and Decency in Woodworking Writing for its use of the expression “man nipples” and an inappropriate use of a tongue...
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This Saw Goes to 10
While at the Connecticut Valley School of Woodworking and Lie-Nielsen Toolworks during the last 15 days I took a lot of notes that I will be vomiting into my blog this week. Some of the entries...
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Classes I’m Teaching in 2012
Earlier this year, I announced that I wouldn’t be teaching any woodworking classes in 2012 in order to give my family a break from my sometimes-hectic travel schedule. After stepping down as editor of...
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Failed Experiments in Dovetailing
Perhaps I should just learn to listen to my body. My best ideas come to me in the shower. My worst ones come while I’m in bed. This one popped into my head as I was drifting off to sleep this week....
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I Like to Wipe
The first time I met Frank Klausz we were both demonstrating at a woodworking show outside Philadelphia. I was flattening boards by hand with a panel plane when Frank walked up, snatched the plane off...
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The Sound of this Photograph
OK now, before we get started here I want you all to gather around there behind the bench. Like a family photo. We are going to gang-cut all the dovetails on all your tail boards with this one saw...
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Sawbench in 60 Minutes: The Movie
Crap. I forgot to show this movie to the audience at Woodworking in America. I blame jet lag, alcohol and the boll weevil. The week before flying out to Pasadena, Calif., for the show I built a lot of...
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First Look: Veritas Saw File Holder
I’ve been sharpening my own saws for many years, but it’s not something I’m comfortable teaching or writing much about because I don’t do it enough to feel like I’ve encountered all the crazy,...
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A Wrinkle in Sawing
A try-square is not always at hand when it is desired to saw a stick, and when it is handy some mechanics prefer to work by “guess” than otherwise. When a bright, straight saw is placed upon a stick or...
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Dividing Saw Plates
An easy method of dividing plates of hardened steel, such as saw plates; and also of perforating them, when requisite. Workmen frequently wish to divide a broken saw plate, for the purpose of...
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Design for a Tool Chest
Design for a Tool Chest George A. Jones of Palmetto Florida Patented March 29, 1921 (D57,436) - Jeff Burks Filed under: Historical Images, Saws
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How to Select a Saw
I often derive great pleasure and profit from reading the choice bits of information in “ours,” and was much interested in reading, in No. 623, suggestions respecting the purchasing of saws. They are...
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Bostwick’s Giant Riding Saw Machine
A simple method of quickly cross-cutting a log has long been required by those who have to do with unsawn timber. The time and trouble involved by the employment of two sawyers is a serious item in...
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Manufacture of Saws in Sheffield
Although some of our readers are doubtless well acquainted with the manufacture of the above-named articles we think that the greater part of them are ignorant of anything connected with the...
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Sawyers
He is employed by the Carpenter, the Cabinet-maker, and the Cooper, to cut wood into the required boards, planks, and battens, for their respective operations. This he performs by placing the tree or...
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Selling Atkins Saws
Importance of Getting Your Article Right First and then Advertising it Emphasized by the Experience of the Manufacturers—How E.C. Atkins Started a Business that Now Employs 1200 Men in the Home...
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Why I Bought a SawStop Table Saw
If I invented a pill that cured cancer, I can assure you that I wouldn’t try to force it down your throat via legislation, regulation or some other governmental mandate. After my early career as a...
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The Advantages of Saws with ‘Tapered’ or ‘Canted’ Blades
During every class I teach where we pick up a saw, a students always asks the following question: Why is your sawblade narrower at the toe? This characteristic of some backsaws is curious at first to...
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Letters to Disston
This is a New Zealand saw fitting shop. Mr. Fraser surely seems to have a pretty complete assortment, and it is interesting to note from his letter that Disston Saws are in almost universal use in New...
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