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I never had the desire to make a saw handle until I read the articles by Charlie Driggs and Andrew Lunn on this website. Excellent creations. My hand saw spare parts
consisted of two blades, a set of split nut hardware and a recessed
warranted superior medallion with an eagle. The best blade of
the two to fit a customized handle was the Spear and Jackson with a
nib. The blade did require a restoration. I decided for the handle design I would use a style similar to a Woodrough and McParlin. The "Panther Head Saw" has always fascinated me. I decided to carve a ram’s head on my saw handle project. Choice of wood was the next step in my project, I chose Basswood. Straining several minutes to remove from storage a piece of basswood 3 inches x 8 inches x 17 feet I managed to use granddaddy’s trusty Warranted Superior handsaw to remove a piece 16 inches in length. Back to storage and by this time I am questioning myself. Do I really want to make a handsaw handle? My desire prevailed. For this project I used the following tools and materials. Powered tools are a necessity at my age. Tools:
Materials:
Squared rough stock. When I re-saw stock I like to saw with a straight vertical end.
Jointed one edge. Jointed edge down to position stock 90 degrees to saw blade.
Re-saw to avoid stock waste.
Stock re-sawed.
I used thickness planer to plane wood to desired thickness.
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