Had some saws on hand, two had ugly black plastic handles, and had a half of a handle left, an another was missing the the bottom edge. yet another one had a cheapo plywoodie handle. Something just HAD to be done here. So, some Barn wood, some black Walnut, and some sycamore were rounded up and put to use. Twobacksaw ( the plastic handled ones) got the barn Wood Oak, Another Backsaw got the Black Walnut. A D8 with the bottom edge missing from the handle, got repaired, using some of the wood from that Backsaw’s broken handle. An 8 point crosscut saw, with that plywoodie handle, got a sycamore replacement handle, using the old handle as a pattern. Other than the two plastic handle ones, the rest cost about $5.21 to bring home. Wood was what was on hand. A few pictures of the saws:
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Looks like you have been doing some good
There are a surprising number of subtleties when choosing / making saw handles. I was fascinated by what I came across some time ago about all that. Christopher Schwarz has really gone into it in some of his blogs. I don't pretend to know much at all about that but anyway . . .
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