Thanks for sharing! I gave it a try, messed up my first attempt trying to fit the brass back since my chisel was too big. I gave it another try after making a small chisel out of an old drill bit and got it to fit better. Shaping and sanding took a really long time but now that I'm done, I'm really happy with it. I've been carrying it around with me too 😁 but I haven't attached the saw plate yet since I don't think my wife would be too happy with that since we have young children. Thanks again!
The HandToolery thanks! It's ok about the mishap. It's like you said, cut the slot before you invest too much time in it. I had some time invested in it since I milled the wood from some firewood for a firewood challenge but it would have been a lot worse if I messed up after all the shaping and sanding. Thanks again!
Beautiful handle - and hopefully the blade is up to the task. You never know until you start from scratch, new teeth, new set, etc. Paul Sellers has a great series on doing that. If not, now you know how to make a killer handle.
Beautiful job Andrew, I've been using Japanese saws for my dovetails and while I love mine, what you just made is giving me all kinds of "maybe back to western". Like you, I would just want to hold it every time I saw it. Cheers ...
I'm impressed how straight your kerf turned out, even more so since you cut it freehand and without a handle. I've ruined quite a couple of saw handles at that point. Good job!
Great job Andrew. I have an old gent's saw that has been lying around unused for many years. Like you, I never really liked the feel of the pad-style handle and had always had it in the back of my mind to make and fit a pistol grip handle. You have given me the inspiration, many thanks.
Thanks for the $700 clarification. I was about to mention that you can get a BadAxe saw for around $300, so 700 was pretty optimistic. Nice work! Glad the saw can be sharpened. Many new saws sold now have hardened teeth. Can't sharpen them.
Nice build. I especially liked your providing the index to go to the end. I waste a ton of time on videos and then find the final product 'not for me'. Great vid and build. I'm going to give this one a try!
I made a new handle for an old backsaw blade, about three weeks ago, pretty much the same way you did, here. (although I didn't need to drill the screw holes in the plate, since I was replacing an old, broken handle. It really was a very satisfying project!
You did a beautiful job on that handle. Amazingly, you did it left handed. WOW. (LOL - I'm a left handed brother, and only another left handed person would pick up on that!) Nice left handed saw!
I was watching it and said to myself, " That's odd, he is holding the saw all wrong." Then I saw later in the video he was cutting it left-handed. Great video!
I must say made a fantastic job of it. I think I must be in a tiny minority, but I like the gent's saw. It might possibly be because I was a chef by trade and it’s the way I’m used to cutting things. A great video, very well done indeed.
Nice job, I did the same thing a few years ago with what looked to be the same saw lol. It did ok but when I got a nice brass back saw it was so much better. The heavier spine sure does make a difference.
Great build, I was wondering if it was just the handle that affected the cut as first cuts seemed nice & crisp. But you sharpened & re-sent teeth too, so whole saw rebuild
Definitely redoing the teeth made a huge difference. I prefer this style of saw handle over a gents saw, but I suspect that doing the teeth only might be a good place to start if you don’t want to go the route of what I do here.
Wow, a compliment from Stavros Gakos, dating back a bit. This is somehow like a young Michaelangelo, or maybe Leonardo of Vinci calling to say "Atta boy!"
Thanks! Glad I could help solve a problem. A friendly reminder that practice makes perfect. Dovetails get much easier after doing them just a few times. Cheers!
I just found your Channel. I watched a couple of videos and I like the fact that you use a lot of hand tools in crafting your products. And the results are fantastic. So I subscribed to your Channel. Looking forward to the next project.
Outstanding work!! I've got a couple inexpensive saws with plastic handles one I bought and one was my dad's..both qualify as vintage though. And I want to do this with both! Thanks for the experience you share 😊
I bought a Stanley miter saw at a church garage sale for $3.00 and made a neat walnut handle for it. Am using it now to cut the mortise and tenons for my roubo workbench that is in current production.
Well, this is certainly serendipitous. I just ordered the same saw a three/four weeks ago from Woodcraft, but it came with two differences; 1., it has a hole with which to hang it at the toe and 2., for some strange reason, it cuts on the pull stroke ala Japanese style saws and not a western style push stroke. I've already pulled and reversed the blade's direction in the spine. The reason I bought it was to recut the teeth in a Rip pattern instead of the typical Crosscut pattern, reducing them in number by half (and making them bigger in the process) as per an article by Mario Rodriguez in an old FineWoodworking magazine I have. I'll do the teeth first, see how that works out and then, if all goes well, do the handle. If that works out, I have an 8" E. Garlick & Son "Lynx Brand" gent's saw that looks otherwise identical to their traditionally handled dovetail saw that I'll do the same to next. [Addendum: The link to Blackburn tools is "Just what the doctor ordered". (Since I used to be the Guitar Doctor at Stars Guitars in San Francisco (I made "house calls" to concerts and recording studios), I actually mean it. Thanks.]
Hey! Great timing indeed! How cool you did guitar repair. Yeah, I’d say I prefer this traditional style over a gents but some people don’t. Whatever works for the user I say! Anyway that is very strange about the saw you bought. I hope you get everything tuned up and working great. Cheers!
@@TheHandToolery, "I'm 'Woikin' on. it", as the Three Stooges" might have put it. I do presume you replaced the round head bolts and hex nuts with the proper hardware from Blackburn. When you get the bug to do another one (and you know you will) I have two quick suggestions; 1., Find a saw with little to no set in the teeth that has a kerf no wider than the saw plate of the one you're making a handle for, Japanese flush cutting saw, or a hobby saw, whatever. Mark your handle for the cut then lay it flat on the bench and then block up the saw your going to cut the grove with up to the hight of the intended saw kerf, hold the cutting saw horizontal and steady on the material you're using to block it up with, then just move the handle blank back and forth until the slot is done. Much easier to get a straight cut and have it centered where you want it. I think Paul Sellers has a video on it. 2., I hope your insurance agent never sees this video because pulling edged tools like your chisels toward you like that can drastically and suddenly change your air intake. Be safe.
Very inspiring. It's great to use home made tools. I am going to do the same. However, to save effort I will use a pillar drill for the holes and a router to round over the edges. Is it big enough? Antique handles tend to be small.
Definitely worth a try! Mine works really well, with the only exception being that I messed up the saw plate a little when mounting it. Still, results are spot on!
There's something about making one's own tools. When I use my saw or my planes I've made, it always pops into my mind how crazy it is that this thing I made is now making something else. This was surely the most normal of processes in times past, but now, we are so distanced from the manufacturing of things that it is hard to imagine at times. Maybe that's why this is so rewarding to make you own handles or jigs or tools. Cheers!
Well I made the pistol grip handle, 2 problems that I had that I didn't notice in your video that you might address if you update your video. 1. Shorten, sharpen, and reset teeth before cutting slot for saw plate. 2. I believe I have the very same Deer brand gent saw but I had one heck of a hard time drilling the holes for the screws. I drilled 1/16 hole through the handle put the plate in and couldn't drill through it. Broke 2 drill bits and dulled a third. Tooke the plate out drilled handle out to 1/8 put plate in and drilled through with 1/8 carbide drill. Holes opened up with high speed bits after that. Saw worked nice and I'm happy with handle, I might have to add a little more set to my teeth though.
I think you have a key in one of your bandsaw wheels that has partially slid out of it's keyway and is hitting on some of the cast iron webbing of the saw frame. Beautiful job by the way.
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A thumbs up and a subscribe from me for the originality I like this out of the box thinking. Seeing a big value when others see just ordinary it is really nice and that thing came out amazing! Thanks for sharing
Nice project. When drilling the holes in the back of the blade, it would probably be better to support the blade on a block of scrap rather than having it hanging over the edge of the bench. But hey, why didn't you carve sprigs of wheat into the handle? (Just kidding)
I'm interested in your bench vise. As a lefty too, I notice these things. Is it in the middle, or is it at the right side of the bench? BTW, nice bench, saw handle, and vid.
