It followed me home (Part 2)

Brian Rust said:
I have always wanted to find a Simonds hand saw! Nice score!! And that no 80 scraper with a nice burr on it will put the smoothest finish on the knotest most curly wood you can find! I buy all of them I see! I for one made by Atkins last year sometime I think. But first I need to get this package to u! Tuesday it should be shipped
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Good to hear bud! i just got home, took it out to my hand crank grinder and it scrapes well. the blade needs flattening and cleaning of course but does grit progression help at all with these?
 
Some people say it does but I really don’t think so. I will take a mill file and put a 45 degree bevel on the edge then after I have a burr all the way across the edge I will take it to the 1200 stone and get rid of the burr and slightly polish the bevel in the process. Then take a burnisher or just a hardened piece of round steel and roll that edge to the opposite side of the bevel. I use the shank on an old English screwdriver I have. Works better than the burnisher does lol.
 
When I say “get rid of the burr I mean flatten out the back and then work on that 45 bevel a little. Back and forth with until the burr is gone. Just wanted to clarify.and it is spring steel so “flatness” isn’t really important just that you get rid of the burr.
 
Brian Rust said:
Some people say it does but I really don’t think so. I will take a mill file and put a 45 degree bevel on the edge then after I have a burr all the way across the edge I will take it to the 1200 stone and get rid of the burr and slightly polish the bevel in the process. Then take a burnisher or just a hardened piece of round steel and roll that edge to the opposite side of the bevel. I use the shank on an old English screwdriver I have. Works better than the burnisher does lol.
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Brian Rust said:
When I say “get rid of the burr I mean flatten out the back and then work on that 45 bevel a little. Back and forth with until the burr is gone. Just wanted to clarify.and it is spring steel so “flatness” isn’t really important just that you get rid of the burr.
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ok, thank you brian, scrapers are something i only have a limited knowledge with
 
Slim pickins today. Did get a Rixford with a worn toe... anybody know if the R54 next to the rixford name was a catalogue or something else?
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Hello I hope I'm not throwing this thread off but I have several dozen files I'd like to possibly sell or trade. The auction site is ridiculous and I haven't a clue what I got here in terms of realistic value, not American Pickers my barbed wire is worth $5,000. Let's just start off with these dozen: Ranging 13"-17 1/4" -- Simonds flat smo, Nicholson smooth, mill smooth, K&F, Delta flat smooth, Simonds mil 80, etc. As you can see several of the light gray ones are newer, but still USA. I believe one of the older ones is rounded.

Here are pics to show what life (if any) is left in em.
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Well, any input on value? Scrap? Quality not found today unless paying top $? What's a fair and honest price if I were to sell here at BF? My thanks for any input.
 
A17 said:
R54 means manufactured in 1954 I believe.
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Thank you for letting me know. Real bummer about the toe being so worn. Otherwise it's a real nice axe. I'll probably spend some time on it and file a good bit to make it more presentable looking. It's my first rixford!
 
My first is far worse. Look at axes i can't get rid of or something like that on this site.
 
DB_Cruiser said:
Picked up this little cruiser yesterday. Gave it a quick workout today, but the head is loose enough to be a concern. Wondering if I should restore it and rehang, or junk it and get a new one. Anyway, here she is as acquired and after a vinegar bath...
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Your Kidding , Right ?
That thing is a specimen!
Re hang it ! And if possible hang on that handle
 
I can't believe I just finished going through all 336+ pages in this thread, over several days, of course. The knowledge contained in this one thread alone is amazing! The finds you are getting blows me away, I'm lucky to find a handful of things each weekend at a flea market, but JB could have filled a barn with everything he gets since this thread started! Just WOW, hats off to you guys and your dedication to saving logging history!
 
DB_Cruiser said:
Picked up this little cruiser yesterday. Gave it a quick workout today, but the head is loose enough to be a concern. Wondering if I should restore it and rehang, or junk it and get a new one. Anyway, here she is as acquired and after a vinegar bath...
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It's a high quality axe in not bad condition. A bit of heel and toe wear but not beyond fixing with a little grinding and filing. Could easily be a top notch axe again.
 
Phixt said:
Hello I hope I'm not throwing this thread off but I have several dozen files I'd like to possibly sell or trade. The auction site is ridiculous and I haven't a clue what I got here in terms of realistic value, not American Pickers my barbed wire is worth $5,000. Let's just start off with these dozen: Ranging 13"-17 1/4" -- Simonds flat smo, Nicholson smooth, mill smooth, K&F, Delta flat smooth, Simonds mil 80, etc. As you can see several of the light gray ones are newer, but still USA. I believe one of the older ones is rounded.

Here are pics to show what life (if any) is left in em.
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Dirty rusty files are worth scrap price. You can pick them up for almost nothing at any yard sale or estate sale. And there's no way to really tell the condition without cleaning it and putting it to steel. That's why you can't sell them.
 
It might be worth trying to soak old files in vinegar if they are dull but not too far gone.

From another thread:
SC T100 wrote, "I actually tossed a few $1 rusty flea market USA Nicholson's in vinegar not that long ago as they seems like they were good but had a good amount of rust and clogging and I thought I would give it a shot. A 24 hour soak did, in fact, clean the rust as well as make them noticeably sharper. I doubt it's as nice a job as having them sent out, but it brought them back to life and they've been putting in work on hardened bits since."
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/half-round-rasp-or-4-in-hand.1244862/page-3#post-15147973

A company called Save Edge will resharpen files and rasps that are sent to them, and I believe it's done by some type of acid soak.
 
In another thread, Square_peg wrote, "Alex Weygers in his book 'The Complete Modern Blacksmith' writes of sharpening files with a vinegar bath. But he cautions that after the vinegar soak the files should be soaked in running water for an hour to get all the acid out of the surface of the metal."

Square_peg said:
Alex Weygers in his book 'The Complete Modern Blacksmith' writes of sharpening files with a vinegar bath. But he cautions that after the vinegar soak the files should be soaked in running water for an hour to get all the acid out of the surface of the metal.
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