{"id":3024,"date":"2014-06-25T18:03:27","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T23:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/?p=3024"},"modified":"2014-06-26T09:28:05","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T14:28:05","slug":"how-mark-harrell-restores-a-vintage-backsaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/25\/how-mark-harrell-restores-a-vintage-backsaw\/","title":{"rendered":"How Mark Harrell restores a vintage backsaw"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Bad<\/p>\n

Here is an excellent resource for every woodworker<\/a>\u00a0by the maker of\u00a0Bad Axe saws<\/a>.\u00a0It will, of course, be extremely valuable if you have plans to restore a backsaw, but just as much if you want to improve the performance of any backsaw, or if you simply want to expand your understanding<\/strong> of hand saws.<\/p>\n

With photos and text,<\/strong> in six detailed posts<\/strong>, Mark walks you through the processes of cleaning up a saw plate, restoring a handle, and, what I found most interesting<\/strong>, how to adjust the interaction of the saw back and plate to produce a dead straight tooth line. He also explains his straightforward approach to sharpening and how he uses a nineteenth century device to hammer set<\/strong> the teeth.<\/p>\n

Heck, the colonel even advises you on how to smooth your horns and free up your frozen nuts – in a family-friendly context, of course. And by the way, I like that he calls the wooden part of a saw a “handle”<\/strong> instead of a “tote,” which seems more like something you’d get for free at a shopping mall.<\/p>\n

Mark has more DIY articles<\/a> on his Bad Axe Toolworks<\/a> site, along with articles on how to evaluate a vintage saw<\/a>, tooth geometry<\/a>, and saw filing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Great stuff,<\/strong> even if you don’t (yet) have a set of Bad Axes<\/em> like I do. (See unabashed display of show-off photo, above.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here is an excellent resource for every woodworker\u00a0by the maker of\u00a0Bad Axe saws.\u00a0It will, of course, be extremely valuable if you have plans to restore a backsaw, but just as much if you want to improve the performance of any backsaw, or if you simply want to expand your understanding of hand saws. With photos […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3024"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3033,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3024\/revisions\/3033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}