Julian the woodnut

I recently aquired this 1917-1918 Disston backsaw for a great price. The saw has a straight and pit free blade, but the teeth are trashed. I have ground off the old teeth, and am waiting for the files and sawset to arrive(just ordered the other day). In the meantime, I have polished the sawnuts, and made a new handle out of some nice curly bubinga that I have been saving for just an occasion.

For the handle I just copied the original and finished it with BLO, then a few coats of amber shellac, then polished it with my own beeswax polish. If all goes well, I plan to make a few more handsaws from scratch, and plan to use brassbacks, instead of steel like this one.

The last photo is what the saw looked like when I bought it.

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Daren

That is going to be nice when you get it done...you need one of these, saves a lot of work making new teeth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkeLX...e=channel_page

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Julian the woodnut

Yes, that would be nice. I have been conjuring up a jig to help me out. I just need to build it, but I'm going to wait till I have the files.

beerdog

I like the handle. They don't make them with that kind of detail anymore.