Confess! *LINK*

Re: Confess!

Jack Guzman from Maine

>How can you not love that cow lookin at you over the fence rail? I wonder if the art will hold up to actual sawing.I wouldn't mind it if it was useable.---Jack

Aaaugh!

Greg B�tit, Vergennes, VT

>The walls of Frenchman's Diner in Crown Point are covered with saws, axes, etc. all treated with the same genre of cutesey-wootsey 'art'. It breaks my heart.

Greg

At least it was not a panther saw!

Don Thompson - Cutler Ridge, Florida

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One man's panther is anothers canvas *LINK*

Eric Hedberg

>I'd take a painted panther if I could get one. Even a pink one. Eric

See this treat from Popular Woodworking. Hey Chris can you post a bigger one!




Painted Panther issue

How hard would it be...

Scott in Douglassville, PA

>...to strip the art away? Seems like it might be worth it if no one else bids...

Re: How hard would it be...

WALTER MCCLAIN

>I will let you know if I win it!!

Re: Confess!

Christopher Fitch @ Memphis

>yes...the cow got me...

I see one or two of these saws like 1-2 times a week...

I'm not being critical of someone's art...

I just find the whole notion of this to be very amusing..

Here's the thought process:

1) come up with the idea that painting a scene on a saw will see on ebay

2) get a nice disston

3) clean it up enough to be painted

4) paint it with some scene

5) list it on ebay..

:)

Re: Aaaugh!

Mike L in Trabuco Canyon, CA

>My local library has a gallery where they display touring art collections. Last year there was an entire exhibition of painted handsaws from a single "artist". Thankfully, I did not see many high quality saws desecrated. I believe the permanent home for the collection is Gnu Yawk City.

Regards,

Mike

Re: How hard would it be...

Todd O. Cronkhite Maine Native in FL. Exile :~(

>Question is, what's under the paint? Did some buffoon take a grinder or sander to it to it to remove the rust and really mess up the blade or not?

I myself have nothing against painting saws IF the blade is damaged to the point to where it cannot be used as a saw any longer with out major surgery to the blade. I've actually seen some really nice scenes on saw blades. I do wish that they'd stick to circular saw blades and leave the handsaws alone tho.

Painting like woodworking, when it comes right down to brass tacks is art, just different mediumns, so even tho I'm not real thrilled to see a painted saw I can apprecite the art that is in it, plus it's easily reversable. :~) Question being, was unreversable damage done to the blade prior to painting.

Got a buddy with a painted two-man crosscut hanging on his wall that he oaid some pretty decent money for at DollyWood IIRC. When I tell him that the paint will come right off he gives me the stink eye. When he comes to my shop and sats that one of my one-man crosscuts would look good painted and hanging on his wall I threaten his life.

Todd O.

Re: How hard would it be...

Walter McClain

>I agree whole heartedly. But, it has got to be better than the Vermont American I am using. Plus, I have a good saw set to straighten the teeth and I can sharpen it if all the teeth are there and it looked like they were.

Those cows look awfully familiar...

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA

>Didn't I see them on South Park...Moooooo

Why the close up?

Thomas Skaggs, Foothills of Mount Level

>Why bother to show the close-up of the Disston medallion? The saw is been relegated to being a clown tool so who cares that it's a Disston anymore? Sheeez.

Poor saw....destined to hang on a wall somewhere in humiliation...a saw is a terrible thing to waste!

Tommy

Preservation

Melvin Willis

>Your looking at it the wrong way. Assuming the blade wasn't trashed (either as found or by the artist) in 30 years some lucky galoot is going to be able to pick up a hand saw that has been kept out of the weather for $2 at some garage sale. It won't have the patina but it'll be perfectly serviceable for it's makers original intention.

Re: Preservation

Todd O. Cronkhite Maine Native in FL. Exile :~(

>I agree with that sentament 100% as well. As I tell my buddy, I'd rather see them painted and kept inside as decorations than to lye in some dark, dank, forgotten corner and rot. Now that is truly Heartbreaking. Just let us hope that the painters aren't destroying the blades in preperation for painting.

Todd O.

Re: Preservation

Thomas Skaggs, Foothills of Mount Level

>You guys are right. But I wonder who got the idea to paint saws in the first place? Some guy was holding a saw and said to himself...gee, I think I'll paint cows on this? Odd!

Tommy

Runaway bride appeared on my Disston!

Nemo Tools

>If you've been following e-bay oddities, you know that anything that can be scratched onto toast has been sold lately. So why not saws?

Runaway bride appeared on my Disston.

Leonardo daVinci's Last Supper appeared on my Disston.

Britney Spears' baby appeared on my Disston.

Chewbacca appeared on my Disston.

Pope John Paul appeared on my Disston.

I kid you not, every one of these things and more has appeared on toast and been put up for sale on e-bay. Do a search for toast, expired auctions only. Amazing. And it's a lot faster than a painting. Besides, those cows kinda creep me out. They're .... looking .... at .... me.

Of course, add space for sale on the bust of a famous celebrity would work for a Disston too. Right? That's on E-bay too.

Re: How hard would it be...

Todd Hughes

>I have twice bought good saws that were painted including a nice Disston and SON one and stripped them. I just used some paint stripper and scrapped them off with a razzor blade being careful not to leave it on to long as I was worried about etching the blade with the stripper. Don't know if it would. The saw on ebay looks to be a very common D23 of pretty new vintage and in my opinon not worth the trouble involved to strip the paint off of. An auction I go to has occasionaly some Amish women who buy saws to paint.I normaly never let them get any just on principal.I did approach them and told them if they get any saws with clear writing on them and are very clean or that have these split nuts [I showed them an old one] I would be interested in buying them. Like all Amish,[at least all I know!] they are very keen on making the green and have brought me in a few saws. So far nothing to special but bought them so they would bring me more.

I bought a VERY special saw last week that was unfortunately painted.Bad thing is I sort of like what is on the saw and don't know what is under the paint.Haven't made up my mind on what to do but when I do I will post a photo of it.Ain't going to tell you what the saw is but will say it was a big find!.......Todd

Re: saws

Moses Yoder in White Pigeon, MI

>If I bought every saw I've seen at garage sales priced at $1, I'd have to build a 10' x 40' x 60' shop just to keep them out of the rain I think. And, more saws are still being manufactured today. Not just good quality saws, but also cheap saws. I don't get it. Must be after a saw is dull it gets thrown in the trash and people go buy a new one. I wonder what happens to all these saws? Some of the saws I've seen are actually done well, although I'd never have one hanging in my shop; kind of like having a velvet Elvis in the house; nobody actually buys those things, do they?

Re: Confess!

Ernie Miller

>I think that is a #23 hand saw you can't give them things away it seems to me or I would be listing them as I have more than my share. spend 15 minutes painting a $1.00 saw and get a quick $10.00? Still dosent cover your time they need to get at least $20 to make it worth while. Ta least it wasn't a #12 rip or somthing like that.