The Disston Twins Restoration
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- The Twins are two full size Disston No.7s--one rip, one cross cut--both 6PPI, both from the 1896 to 1917 period. They are both in great shape, and I'm going to clean them up and get them back to work.
The older of the two, the rip saw, has most of the sticker around the medallion. The horseshoe shaped sticker says:
“Years of competition against all kinds of prejudice has proved THIS SAW to be superior to any other manufacture. Thousands testify to this fact.”
I did my best to recreate the sticker, which shows up in this video. If anyone needs the vector artwork for the sticker, let me know and I'll figure out how to make it available.
My saw doesn't have the sticker on the grip. According to the Vintage Saws website, the sticker on the grip said:
“Beware of Counterfeits of our No.7 Saw”
500automax.com/... Check out partial sticker photos there.
There is also a nice set of photos of the No. 7 tote stickers at Jim Bode Tools, here: www.jimbodetoo...
superb video, thoroughly enjoyed it thank you from York, England
Thanks so much RW, I'm glad you liked it, and I appreciate your taking the time to let me know! Cheers
The stamp "0" is probably a 10 for 10 teeth per inch. TPI is always stamped in that corner of the saw.
Thanks RF. That was my thought as well, but I haven't seen one digit stamped so deep, with no sign of the other digit. I was wondering if anyone else had seen this on a Disston saw.
Gostei do Serrote tem um bom ✂️ Very good
Thank you, and thanks for commenting!
Wonderful Saws your restored. Very rare here in Germany. Best wishes from Germany
Thanks and thank you for writing. Disston made some wonderful tools while they were still around. the company still exists as a subsidiary of a larger firm, but the don't manufacture the same quality of tool that they used to.
Great video. This gives me courage to take on some saw restorations. I inherited my dad's collection.
Thanks SS, and you definitely should! Older saws are made better, the plates are taper ground tool steel so they can be sharpened over and over. Newer saws are often hardened only at the teeth. That's just for starters! good luck and have fun!
@@moonlightsnowfall6734 I hear you there! I was business partners with my dad for nearly 10 years- we're builders. He instilled a love of old tools in me. Sadly he passed away about 2 years ago, but these tools make me feel like he's close. His fingerprints are still on some of them!! I'm excited to undertake this though, and yes, it should be fun!!
@@stuartsmith3823 Some of the stuff I started with came from my grandfather, and now I'm working with some of my dads tools. I lost my dad around the same time. I know exactly what you mean.
Hello fr1end,,, whr u from 😊🤝
I tagged the video, thanks for commenting!
Nice clean up of the twins. I have a few old saws that belonged to my grandfather that are very similar in style and shape, now I have to retrieve them and check them out closer. Thanks for sharing with us.
It was a fun project. I'll get around to sharpening them both at some point, but they function okay for now. Good luck in your search! I'm a big fan of older tools; for their quality and their styling. They just don't make tools to be handsome anymore.
Great video but I have a question. How can you tell the difference between a rip saw and a crosscut saw?
Thanks Jack, the tooth shape is where the difference is. The leading face of rip teeth are typically more vertical, and the faces of the teeth are usually square; like a row of tiny chisels lined up. Cross cut teeth are more leaned back, and the front and back face of each tooth is sharpened; like a row of tiny knifes lined up. Blackburn tools has a great page on this: www.blackburntools.com/articles/saw-tooth-geometry/index.html. About halfway down the page there is a diagram of rip vs. crosscut teeth if you aren't interested in the other geometry stuff they get into.