New (to me) saw set device *LINK*

Re: New (to me) saw set device

Dan Donaldson

>I believe that Stephen Shepherd has some info about one similar to this on his website. (www.ilovewood.com)

Re: New (to me) saw set device

Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX

>Indeed he does, it's called a saw wrest, cool, looks a lot more manageable than a typical hammer set.

Thanks,

Pam

Re: New (to me) saw set device

Bob Nelson

>Those were the original type of saw set used by the Romans and such back in BC days - long before the hammer and plier types. Of course, somebody like me who was around back then would know this better than a youngster like Pam. Bob

Re: New (to me) saw set device

Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX

>Thanks, Bob, very interesting. I suppose the hammer was an effort to go faster and the pliers an effort to go faster with precision? Someone contemplating hammering her Japanese saws may find a homemade wrest a more reliable setting device.

Are there rules about thick the wrest should be (alburnam's archive says 3/32", but that might be for typical western saws)? Relative to the tpi?

Pam

Re: New (to me) saw set device

Bob Nelson

>There probably are such "rules" - but I don't know them. Bob

OK, thanks.

Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX

>