What did you do in your shop today with sharp pointy things(Crosscuts, Axes,Knives. Chainsaws)

[Dixie]

So I dabble in knife making, crosscut saw sharpening mostly and in the winter spend a lot of time in the shop.
So show what you’re doing.
I’ve got several projects going but since my recent rabbit hole of a copy of a Grohmann
and the perfect hunting knife I’ve been distracted.
Saw on the vise is a 503 almost done and the KA-BAR copies are my from my Marine days…love a leather handle. Knifes just finished up tempering after Heat treatment.
I got a pile of information on sharpening Crosscuts if interested PM me.

 

[elkliver]

what do you know about tuning saws? You read about the old timers setting the teeth on saws and tuning them and id be interested in an explanation. Think i understand it but will admit i could use some educating

 

[Dixie]

what do you know about tuning saws? You read about the old timers setting the teeth on saws and tuning them and id be interested in an explanation. Think i understand it but will admit i could use some educating

Several things in tuning a saw
First would be jointing to make sure everything is on the arc of the circle.
Then file and swage rakers to around.012 below teeth ,then file teeth to the dot(dot is the small amount left from the jointing, if you remove it you will over file and you rakers will be high), then set the teeth(.010/.012) wider than the thickness of the saw. This is general depth/set as it depends on the saw and wood but this is basically what’s needed for western soft woods.I Deviate some from the book answer as I finish up pointing the teeth last and do the set before I do rakers as otherwise if you set last it changes your raker height some. If interested pm me as I have manuals and saw catalogs going back to the 1900’s . The guy that wrote the USFS saw manual pdf copied a lot of information and I have a lot of it.
Lost art but a few of us still carry on the tradition.

 

[elkliver]

the lost knowledge/tradition is why i asked. There is a lot of knowledge that will be lost if we get a few more years along. You offset every other tooth right? .010 thicker than the saw to the left on the first tooth and to the right on the second tooth? Or am i misunderstanding?

 

[Dixie]

the lost knowledge/tradition is why i asked. There is a lot of knowledge that will be lost if we get a few more years along. You offset every other tooth right? .010 thicker than the saw to the left on the first tooth and to the right on the second tooth? Or am i misunderstanding?

Correct on the set .
Still a few of us that work in the wilderness, so using them will still be a thing. I got into sharpening because after one of the legendary sharpener passed and nothing cut like his saws... figured I couldn't do any worse than the people who did our saw that didn't cut.