Some time ago I bought this two-man saw As you probably noticed I like to buy rusty tools They're usually cheap, good quality… And restoring them is fun This saw in particular,albeit cheap, was in good shape I'm going to redo the handles for the saw. But I'm going to recycle these for something else To remove rust I just use water and sand paper If is a small piece sometimes I use silicon oil But in this case it would be a waste As you can see under the rust the steel is in very good conditions This is the most corroded part But even here the rust hasn't penetrate deep The handle braces have this pattern in the steel I don't think is Damascus steel, why should it be after all?
but it's kinda similar nonetheless Not bad! This is the most corroded part As you can see the corrosion just scratched the surface A light pass of abrasive paste…
…and I'm ready to move on I suppose I'm happy to be done with rust What do you think of this "cinematic" shot? Next thing to do is to sharpen the saw This saw has simple triangular shaped teeth to sharpen them at roughly the same angle I made a simple pattern It's amaizing how good are our eyes at checking for parallelism Seen at this angle they look quite aggressive They are quite sharp But they need some setting I hope I can find a saw set in some shop or fair someday Next up is to make the handles I was recently given some Juniper I've never used Juniper wood before But it was a very plesent surprise lt's easy to work and the scent is amazing Really, just planing it made my shop smell good for days I think it's also pretty I'm surely going to be using it again Anyway, not having a lathe I rounded it with a plane I started with a square, then an octagon and rounded the edges Juniper makes very nice shavings Aren't they cute? This is just a piece of tubing that I had that happened to be the right dimension This is probably not a very accurate method, but it worked fine Sorry for the shakiness To fix that I just needed to hammer the wedges on the leg of my bench But I really was into making these handles I didn't realize it was so evident Sometimes some brute force helps Happy with the carving pattern of my frame saw…
I decided to replicate it here By the way, you should check that video, link in the card above It amazes me every time You probably don't recognize it,
but the wedge is leftover wood from the mallet I made This mallet! And finally this time linseed oil is replaced with…
shellack After mixing it wait about a day to let it melt It's a bit of a shame I'm losing the pink color of the wood Maybe someday I'll sand it and take it back to it's original color Finally I decided to make a cover for the blade To keep it simple I used two sheets of very thin plywood I glued some strips of plywood a little bit thicker than the blade Because the saw is a little round here I'm following the curve I got a little carried away and I decided to add some leather strips too By the way, you can watch this very hand drill restoration video To hold them in place I used a screw from a belt Finally a coat of shellac I ended shellacking the leather too, it was too bright This is the final result Time to test it! We probably should have cut the tree directly with the saw But I really wanted to try to fell a tree with an axe! Two people, three angles.
Quality is skyrocketing, don't you think? Even slowmotion! And now the star of the show! Once you get the rithm it really cuts very well I would like to try it on something much thicker one day, to see how it goes And… that's it! If you enjoyed the video please consider liking the video, leaving a comment and subscribing to the channel Wait…
Rest. Whops, sorry, you were filming… It's rotten… It's wet, dunno… strange! Next upgrade must be… sounds. – You put a mic there… eh?
– You can hear it already BOOOM! Don't hurt yourself! Or do it, as long as you're filming. – If it start falling I'll let go
– Okay. – What do you mean let go?
– The saw I don't want it!.