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6/1/04, 1:57 AM #1

Jack in Orlando
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Jack in Orlando

>Hi all,

I am a new woodworker and have made a few decent projects with powertools. I am now standing on the edge of the slippery slope with a desire to use hand tools in more of my projects.

My father gave me the pictured tools which he found in the shed of a house he inherited. The top saw appears to be rip saw and it has a medallion with EC Simmons Keen Kutter. The bottom saw has much finer teeth and has a much thinner blade. It is missing its medallion along with another screw in the handle.

Are the saws worth restoring? What is the best way to remove the rust? Should I try to sharpen them myself? Or, should I just hang them on the wall and buy new saws?

The plane is a Craftsman which I intend to tune and use. It is just over 14 inches long and just over 2.5 inches wide. It is corrugated on the bottom and the sides. Is it worth restoring?

My wife said I can buy a LN rabetting block plane for my birthday/father's day present. I intend to add a #4 or #4.5 either LN or LV as funds allow.

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6/1/04, 2:03 AM #2

Jack in Orlando
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Jack in Orlando

>I forgot the picture. Here it is.

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6/1/04, 3:03 AM #3

Ernie Miller
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Ernie Miller Topeka

>Use a 220 sand paper with some WD40 and clean going the length of the blade. Keen Kutters are collected by some people but but I have never gotten much out of them. it is best to remove the handle befor cleaning. Should clean easly

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6/1/04, 3:11 AM #4

Bill Houghton
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Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>Craftsman planes vary from pretty darn good to pretty darn awful. You look to have about a No. 5 (jack) plane there, a fairly useful size - a lot of books suggest buying a jack as your first plane.

When you look at the assembly in the middle of the plane's length, the top piece is called the lever cap. The lever, at the top of it, is a cam arrangement: lift it up, and it can be removed. When you remove it and turn it over, is there a flat piece of spring steel under the cam? If not, you should set this plane aside until later, when you've learned enough to add a spring. If so, it's worth cleaning up and using. Don't get all fancy about tuning it right yet: take it apart, clean it up (I like SOS pads to clean off the rust and dead spiders followed by drying it, followed by WD-40 and wiping down, followed by paste furniture wax on all the moving parts and the sole [bottom] of the plane, followed by trying it out on some pine or similar wood).

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6/1/04, 1:07 PM #5

Jack in Orlando
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Jack in Orlando

>Thanks Ernie, I will clean the saws as best I can. By the way, do you know of a source for replacing the screws in the handle?

Thanks Bill. Yes, there is a flat spring under the cam. I will take your advice and clean it, sharpen it and then use it.

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6/1/04, 4:03 PM #6

Ernie Miller
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Ernie Miller Topeka

>Lest wait untill you know the maker of the saw to find out what medalion you need. and then we will need to know the size of the saw nuts. after that is is just a matter of finding the right POS to take them off of. E-mail me you address and I will try and find them for you in my junk pile. And also need to know brass or Nickel plated.

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