First try at noticed sharpening

A while in the past I purchased an outdated (like grandparents-old) Disston for $50 on eBay (in case you’re fortunate, you would possibly have the ability to purchase one at a yard sale for a couple of dollars) and I’ve slowly been accumulating and constructing the required instruments to sharpen it. Particularly,

• A noticed vise — you used to have the ability to purchase these, however since nobody sharpens their saws anymore, these are onerous to search out. Luckily, you may construct your personal. It’s only a picket clamp you insert in your vise. I used a Tage Frid design, besides I don’t have a hinge on the backside of mine.
• A 6″ slim taper noticed file.
• A jig that goes on the entrance of the file to carry the sting at a 98 levels to make an 8 diploma rake(*).

My noticed was filed crosscut (to chop throughout the grain) however I made a decision to file mine rip to noticed alongside the grain. This may permit me to break up boards extra simply.

I adopted these noticed submitting directions. The set appeared fairly good to me already, so all I did was to joint(**) it ensuring all tooth have been the identical top, and refile it for rip. Rip saws don’t have any fleam which lower my submitting work in half. Whereas that is my first try at noticed submitting, the consequence was a particular enchancment. It actually eats by that pine now! In comparison with a $20 huge field retailer noticed, its efficiency is wonderful.Touching the tooth with a finger it actually grabs the pores and skin. I’ve by no means felt one thing like that besides in in my $200 Lie-Nielsen panel noticed. (And now I’m wondering why I spent that a lot for the LN once I might have made it myself.)

(*) An 8 diploma rake is a extremely aggressive angle which makes for a really quick noticed. I don’t assume you should buy this for cash. You need to make it your self.

(**) That is the place the time period “out of joint” comes from. If a noticed is out of joint, not all tooth are working. Your noticed might doubtlessly bounce round and be a basic ache to work with.

So as a substitute of shopping for a brand new plastic noticed, you simply would possibly need to contemplate getting an outdated noticed, a $6 file, and fixing it up. It’s not onerous. Actually, it’s considerably miserable/disturbing to understand again and again that whereas trendy options are normally low cost, fast, and straightforward, they’re normally inferior to the instruments and expertise they changed. It’s simply that no one is aware of this anymore. Those that are sufficiently old to know have forgotten and people who are too younger to recollect by no means knew it within the first place.

Classes discovered: Noticed submitting for rip is straightforward, so making your personal noticed vise and shopping for a file and an outdated noticed is a reasonable solution to get a superior noticed and hold it operating for all times. If you happen to want a noticed, do it this manner as a substitute of heading all the way down to the house enchancment heart to purchase some plastic dealt with piece of stamped sheet steel that can find yourself in a landfill in 10 years.

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Initially posted 2011-06-26 18:42:31.