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The ultimate class operation *LINK*

Bill Houghton, sunny today yahoo in Sebastopol, CA

>While we were briefly out of town, we stopped by a moving sale, and I picked up a Lynx brand file-handle saw, 8", for a somewhat high price - but I couldn't help myself (picked up my first Warrington hammer and a 4-piece set of little engineer's squares, too; turned down the Crown bevel gauge). While trying to justify the price to myself, I found the Thomas Flinn & Co. website, and was comforted that I'd paid just a little over 1/3 of the new price for a pristine, essentially unused saw.

This company also sells a drywall saw - $20 or so for a tool that goes for $13 at Amazon. Of course, the Lynx saw has a beech handle rather than plastic...

Scroll down most of the site to find it.


Some pretty nice saws

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Sounds like a nice score...

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond, CA

>Looks like a nice saw. Have a feeling your going to like eng. squares if you've never had/ used one. You have sun today?

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Saw, score, sun

Bill Houghton, sunny today yahoo in Sebastopol, CA

>Yes, it does seem like a nice little saw. Mostly I've got old Disstons or Atkins (including a truly sweet little Disston and Sons backsaw that, up to now, was my intended dovetail saw - a gift from Alister Orme when I visited him a few years back).

I've got a Starrett diemaker's square that offically lives over in the machinist's top chest in the back corner of the shop, and I find I'm using it more and more often, so this set of squares, including a 2" square, looks to be potentially quite useful. The 6" square seems to show a hairline of light off square - bummer - but the 2", 3", and 4" squares all look clean.

Sun? Yeah, we've had some off and on, but when we just got back from the store, it started raining again. Like fools, we'd thought to spend the weekend up in Fort Bragg, until we walked outside up there (colder than certain comparisons not suitable for a family forum, and predictions of serious rain, which, on the North Coast, means frogs strangling everywhere you look) - stayed one night, checked out of motel, came back. It was a nice return: wandered through the Mendo Coast Botanical Gardens, stopped at Navarro Winery, and, of course, went to the moving sale about two miles south of our motel...

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Colder than an old widow�s, tooth eh?

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond, CA

>Router that is...Scott who got yet another 1/2 of "there's no gobal warming" rains today.

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