Don C Peterson
01-12-2008, 9:04 PM
I happened to see this saw on eBay.
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It's really terrible what some people do to perfectly good saws. OK, if you want to take a junker, and paint some schlocky nature scene on it, fine, but a D-12 panel saw? Are you serious?
I recognized the outline of the handle from the pictures, and could tell that the upper horn was broken off. I thought that even with a broken horn, a number 12 panel saw, for $15 is not a thing to pass up.
When I got it, I was somewhat dissapointed, the handle was in much worse shape that I had feared. It had been very poorly repaired and was unusable.
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I looked for quite a while, but I couldn't ever seem to find a handle for a D-12 panel saw, decent or not, so I fell back to Plan B. I decided to make my own handle. Sure having the original handle makes the saw more valuable, but I want it for using not for selling, so here I went.
I have never worked with Apple wood, and have no idea where to get any, but I do have some nice Walnut scraps from my last project...
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I have a couple of D-12s but they are the full size hand saws and their handles are bigger, so I used the original handle as a pattern. I did use a full size handle to recreate the upper horn though.
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Next, I cut the outline on the band saw and used the brace to drill out certain portions of the finger hole.
To be continued...
79093
It's really terrible what some people do to perfectly good saws. OK, if you want to take a junker, and paint some schlocky nature scene on it, fine, but a D-12 panel saw? Are you serious?
I recognized the outline of the handle from the pictures, and could tell that the upper horn was broken off. I thought that even with a broken horn, a number 12 panel saw, for $15 is not a thing to pass up.
When I got it, I was somewhat dissapointed, the handle was in much worse shape that I had feared. It had been very poorly repaired and was unusable.
79094
I looked for quite a while, but I couldn't ever seem to find a handle for a D-12 panel saw, decent or not, so I fell back to Plan B. I decided to make my own handle. Sure having the original handle makes the saw more valuable, but I want it for using not for selling, so here I went.
I have never worked with Apple wood, and have no idea where to get any, but I do have some nice Walnut scraps from my last project...
79096
I have a couple of D-12s but they are the full size hand saws and their handles are bigger, so I used the original handle as a pattern. I did use a full size handle to recreate the upper horn though.
79097
Next, I cut the outline on the band saw and used the brace to drill out certain portions of the finger hole.
To be continued...