Klaus Kretschmar
06-06-2011, 2:29 PM
Hi Creekers,
in April we (Pedder and me) got a generous offer from a SMC member to trade one of our customized saws against a bundle of vintage American handsaws. It was Mark Wyatt who did this offer after he read in another post that vintage American saws are hard to get in Germany and if they are to be got, then rather expensive. He offered 8 or 10 saws for one of ours! We couldn't but agree. The deal was 8 vintage American saws against one of our dovetail saws.
The following days he sent pics of the saws he proposed by telling us that we were free to choose those we wanted of the shown ones. What Mark showed was most impressing. Those saws were all in decent condition and rather worthy ones. Amongst the first he offered were for example a very nice Disston 112, a D-12, an Acme 120, a D-8 with thumbhole handle, a D-7 in flawless condition and so on. Really amazing tools. After having seen the tools he was willing to throw in the deal, Pedder and I decided to upgrade the charge we wanted to pay by making 2 saws for Mark.
To make a long story short, in the first days of May I recieved a huge package from Mark with 12 (!) wonderful saws. The deal was 8! He's a very generous man for sure. One of the customized saws, he got already, I want to show here with Mark's kind permission. The other one is still in production.
It's a Fine Joinery Saw on the highest level of workmanship that Pedder and I are able to produce. It has an ovlly shaped spine which is hand filed and hand polished. The Ebony handle is crafted with high attention to the detail. It's sanded up to grit 1,200 and got then a coat of dark blue pigmented poppy oil. The pigmented oil darkens the colour to nearly pitch black. After the oil is completely dried the wood will be polished in a certain way which is only possible with Ebony. So the wood itself -not a finish- gets really shiny. The making of such a saw takes more than twice the time compared to the making of a standard dovetail saw with rectangular spine and a handle out of a standard wood. A little MOP inlay on the top of the handle gives the dark wood a nice touch, as we think. We call the design "Ultimate Edition".
Here are some pics:
197049
197050
197051
197052
197053
197054
Thank you Mark for proposing and doing the wonderful trade. Enjoy the saw in good health!
Klaus
in April we (Pedder and me) got a generous offer from a SMC member to trade one of our customized saws against a bundle of vintage American handsaws. It was Mark Wyatt who did this offer after he read in another post that vintage American saws are hard to get in Germany and if they are to be got, then rather expensive. He offered 8 or 10 saws for one of ours! We couldn't but agree. The deal was 8 vintage American saws against one of our dovetail saws.
The following days he sent pics of the saws he proposed by telling us that we were free to choose those we wanted of the shown ones. What Mark showed was most impressing. Those saws were all in decent condition and rather worthy ones. Amongst the first he offered were for example a very nice Disston 112, a D-12, an Acme 120, a D-8 with thumbhole handle, a D-7 in flawless condition and so on. Really amazing tools. After having seen the tools he was willing to throw in the deal, Pedder and I decided to upgrade the charge we wanted to pay by making 2 saws for Mark.
To make a long story short, in the first days of May I recieved a huge package from Mark with 12 (!) wonderful saws. The deal was 8! He's a very generous man for sure. One of the customized saws, he got already, I want to show here with Mark's kind permission. The other one is still in production.
It's a Fine Joinery Saw on the highest level of workmanship that Pedder and I are able to produce. It has an ovlly shaped spine which is hand filed and hand polished. The Ebony handle is crafted with high attention to the detail. It's sanded up to grit 1,200 and got then a coat of dark blue pigmented poppy oil. The pigmented oil darkens the colour to nearly pitch black. After the oil is completely dried the wood will be polished in a certain way which is only possible with Ebony. So the wood itself -not a finish- gets really shiny. The making of such a saw takes more than twice the time compared to the making of a standard dovetail saw with rectangular spine and a handle out of a standard wood. A little MOP inlay on the top of the handle gives the dark wood a nice touch, as we think. We call the design "Ultimate Edition".
Here are some pics:
197049
197050
197051
197052
197053
197054
Thank you Mark for proposing and doing the wonderful trade. Enjoy the saw in good health!
Klaus