Crosscut Saw Thread

[rjdankert]

If you look at the Stanley #43 set you will see that it function like the free hammer and anvil do, only it uses a even controlled pressure by hand pressure on the lever. This is the reason why the gold standard for setting any pattern carpenter's hand saw is the pistol grip set like the Stanley #42.

re Stanley 42 & 43:

Bob

 

[Yankee Josh]

I had read up on saw sets before I got one and the Stanley #43 seemed the best. I recently picked up a Morrills improved #1 because I thought I could do smaller saws with it. Plus it's cool!

The 43 is so easy to use! I can't imagine using another and feel lucky that i didn't have to use a hammer and anvil. I'm sure i could've done it it just would've taken forever. And been hard to keep them all consistent I would imagine.

 

[Old Axeman]

Consistent set is the reason I prefer the #43 to my hammer and a very nice Atkins horn anvil. 40-50 years ago I switched from the hammer/anvil to the #43 on my competition saws. I won more after the switch.

 

[Jim Thode]

For heavier crosscuts I sometimes use a large Morrill 5A like this:

More on use at: https://pbase.com/jimthode/sawset

 

[Old Axeman]

I think it's time, and this is the place. A couple months ago when I was talking to an old USFS friend about those axe posters he told me Warren Miller had passed away 4-5 yrs ago. I did not know this because I moved a long way from Montana 7 yrs ago.

I met Warren many years before I went to work for the USFS, and we became friends. Over the yrs we did many trainings together-Warren did the crosscut saw and I did the axe. When we did trainings at the USFS Ninemile Training center in Huson MT., Warren would come to our old ranch house (3 miles from the Ninemile Ranger Station), have dinner, sit around the wood stove and both of us would tell lies to my wife about our pasts. Warren and I shared a love of old tools, wilderness, and simple sustainable living. I remember giving Warren his first Warren axe (hunters axe actually) from my pile of axes I gathered over many years.

Goodbye Warren, I am proud to call you my friend, I miss you.
Bernie

 

[Square_peg]

^
Priceless. Would have loved to been there and tossed back a cold one with you two.

I can tell lies about my past, too.

 

[Miller '72]

Old Axeman,
Thank you for sharing about Warren Miller and for your personal and heartfelt message.
I remember you mentioned in a discussion here, you had given Warren the Warren Axe and wishing him well, remembering him and his cabin.
I am sorry for the loss of your friend.
He has taught me (and so many more) so much from his videos and manual. He set the bar and standard for all thing crosscuts for me.
Thank you Warren Miller.

 

[Whiskey_Jim]

Continuing non axe related project o had to make a thing.
My felling saw was missing a part. This bearing doughnut thing. I don't know what it's called but I understand what it does.

I only had some 7/8 bar stock. That size helps me later. So I had to upset a piece of this to get a flat circle.

Bang bang

Bang bang

Then I missed some picks but the recessed parts need to be 7/8 diameter. My die plate uses 7/8 dies so easy to smash in the recessed part.

 

[Whiskey_Jim]

Finished part

 

[Yankee Josh]

Finished part

Well done man! That is awesome!

 

[Fmont]

Awesome! Must be really, really nice to be able to make parts like that.

 

[Whiskey_Jim]

Awesome! Must be really, really nice to be able to make parts like that.

Yeah I'm pretty sure you can't buy one

 

[Jim Thode]

Finished part

Cool.
Does that tang on the side have any purpose? Or is it just a casting runner that really should have been ground off at the factory?

 

[Whiskey_Jim]

I think it is for visual alignment for the notches

 

[Jim Thode]

I think it is for visual alignment for the notches

I think it is just a casting runner that was not broke off clean or ground off at the factory. Here is similar fitting with a normal runner. You can still see it but it does not protrude much.

 

[Whiskey_Jim]

I'm going to pretend that they are there for a reason since it was a PIA to make.

 

[Fmont]

I'm going to pretend that they are there for a reason since it was a PIA to make.

Hahahahaha!

 

[Agent_H]

I'm going to pretend that they are there for a reason since it was a PIA to make.

Doesn’t diminish the attention and skill you brought to reproducing that piece.

 

[ithinkverydeeply]

So I removed what I understand to be the factory guard from this Simonds 520 for the first time in 30+ years.

I had not previously removed it to look at the blade prior to buying it.
It needs the grime cleaned off but appears to be in pristine condition.

Back side has what looks like a “D” stamped next to the handle?

Hard to show how crisp the tips are, even across the middle. Makes me think it hasn’t seen much any use and to my layman’s eye, doesn’t look like it has ever been sharpened.
Maybe NOS?

The handles have Royal Chinook stamps.

I don’t know anything about the 520 or the Simonds line for that matter. Any info would be appreciated I have no idea how old it is even?

Also can anyone tell me what these little knurled bumps are near the string grooves?

Thanks!

 

[Agent_H]

So I removed what I understand to be the factory guard from this Simonds 520 for the first time in 30+ years.

I had not previously removed it to look at the blade prior to buying it.
It needs the grime cleaned off but appears to be in pristine condition.

Back side has what looks like a “D” stamped next to the handle?

Hard to show how crisp the tips are, even across the middle. Makes me think it hasn’t seen much any use and to my layman’s eye, doesn’t look like it has ever been sharpened.
Maybe NOS?

The handles have Royal Chinook stamps.

I don’t know anything about the 520 or the Simonds line for that matter. Any info would be appreciated I have no idea how old it is even?

Also can anyone tell me what these little knurled bumps are near the string grooves?

Thanks!

I can tell you something - that is awesome!