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This is a restoration of a saw made by Henry Disston in 1865. This saw was unusable in its pre-restored state and was likely destined for the dump if I did not save it.

Following is my explanation of why I chose to do certain things in regards to the plate and the handle.

The handle, as you will see, was broken in three pieces (fixable, and don't worry, I saved it to possibly use on another saw). However, the biggest issue was the bottom of the saw handle, which would have hung below the tooth line, interfering with sawing. Thus the new handle was shorter in height to account for this spacing.

As for the saw plate, the reason the toe of the saw was so pointy was due to the hundreds of saw sharpening that took place over its lifetime, which shortened the height of the saw. It also had severe bows especially near the toe. I cut off the worst of it and was able to hammer out the other more minor bows (I did not show this as I am not an expert and there are better people to learn from). Also, there was severe pitting that I discovered around the old bolt holes that I decided to remove in order to have cleaner and stronger steel for the whole saw especially around the bolt holes.

To those who are still reading and are interested, the saw ended up at 16 inches and I had wanted it to be that size for a small bench saw. It is 10 ppi and is sharpened as a rip cut with a progressive tooth pattern for the first inch, which helps the saw to ease into the cut.



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