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Questions about saw sets

Skip in Falls Church

>While I was looking for saw sets I noticed that virtually everyone that sells modern saw sets sells them broken down into 2 categories for 12 tpi and down and 12 tpi and up. I ended up with a Stanley 42 SS and just a couple of days ago picked up a Dunlap. (Hey, it was cheap and I figured if I needed to alter one, this would be a worry free one to play with.)

Both saw sets are graduated from 4 to 16 with the recommendation that you start at the number equal to the number of tpi of the saw you are setting. I realize that for most purposes you would pick a setting less than that. For the 9 tpi rip saw I did I ended up using the setting of 12 on the Stanley.

Are these things limited (in a practical sense) to 12 tpi? Would they put too much set on 13 or 14 tpi saws if you were working in dry hard wood? (The woods I normally work with.) Or are they fairly imprecise and might or might not? I've read (here) that some people alter the anvil on their saw sets for higher tpi, how and on what type of saw set? Or did I misread in that saw setting was not high on my list of things to pay attention to at the time?

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Joe Rogers, Northern Virginia

>The alterations are to the plunger so as to allow the plunger to hit only the smaller tooth in high tpi saws. If you don't modify the set you cannot confine the setting to only the tooth desired. I haven't done my Millers Falls set yet so I cannot verify the process...I can only visualize it.JR

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Skip in Falls Church

>Hi Joe,

See, I told you I wasn't paying attention at the time. :) Altering the plunger makes sense - more sense than altering the anvil now that I think about it. I would assume that would be done by removing the plunger (if possible) then filing the plunger down following the contours of the plunger where it bears on the tooth. Any idea to what degree?

I don't really anticipate doing anything smaller than 14 tpi. OTOH I didn't anticipate sharpening saws at all.

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paul womack

>The alterations are to the plunger so as to allow the plunger to hit only the smaller tooth in high tpi saws.

You also need to modify the anvil to allow a lesser AMOUNT of set to be applied to the small teeth that the narrowed plunger can now address.

http://nika.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu/~cswingle/archive/get.phtml?message_id=113063#message

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Skip in Falls Church

>Hi Paul,

So I was only *half* paying attention! I *did* see something about altering the anvil - just missed the part about the plunger. It sounds like the Dunlap I have is similar to the Eclipse you have as the anvil is round. Well, it was cheap enough and I figured I could play with it without much guilt. :) Thanks!

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Joe Rogers

>Thanks for the tip in Paul! Makes sense.JR

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