Nib on a Hand Saw? Answer from Disston

Heh...you have too much spare time, Gary.

DaninVan said:

Heh...you have too much spare time, Gary.

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A day without something learned... is a day wasted!

The old Carpenters used to also use them to score the corner edge to start the cut,sometimes teeth would break a piece from the edge at the start cut, this would help prevent that. Maybe not intended for such, but people seem to find a use for unintended things.
Herb

Gary's died and gone to Heaven! Two new things learned today...

DaninVan said:

Gary's died and gone to Heaven! Two new things learned today...

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three

Stick486 said:

and all this time.....

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My grandfather was a carpenter, he sawed a lot of wood with a handsaw, and I never heard of sawdust in a handsaw cut. Any wood really thick, he would have gone to a one-man crosscut saw, no worries about sawdust then.

Herb Stoops said:

The old Carpenters used to also use them to score the corner edge to start the cut,sometimes teeth would break a piece from the edge at the start cut, this would help prevent that. Maybe not intended for such, but people seem to find a use for unintended things.
Herb

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I learned the use of a nib around 72 years ago. But my grandfather, a carpenter, sometimes used the nib to mark where the cut would start, but never to keep the wood from splintering. For that he pulled the saw back, maybe more than once, scoring the wood, and stop it from splintering when he actually started cutting; this would also keep the saw from slipping away from the cut line.

Stick486 said:

and all this time.....

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I posted that advertisement some time back.

gmercer_48083 said:

I posted that advertisement some time back.

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I dragged it over from Wood...

Wow, only OLD guys would know that,

72 years ago eh ! that's more than 10 years before I was born.

Danman1957 said:

Wow, only OLD guys would know that,

72 years ago eh ! that's more than 10 years before I was born.

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That's middle aged I'll have you know, I'm shooting for 160.

More than 10 years, eh? This place is crawling with you damn kids.

That was a good year, I was 11yo, and learning how to drive,and hadn't even thought of girls yet. took the shot gun and went bird hunting every chance I got.


Herb