Saw rebuild

This is a saw I bought 10 or 12 years ago as part of an inexpensive set.  I was never impressed with the way it cut or the junky laminated tote.  Here I've given it a bit of re-purposing.  It has a 12 inch saw plate with about 3-5/8" under the back.

I retoothed it 14ppi and filed it to 10-degrees rake with 11-degrees of fleam.  This would make for a nice do-anything hybrid saw.

After multiple test cuts I changed the first inch to 30-degrees rake and the second inch to 20-degress rake.  So, rather than progressive pitch, it has progressive rake.  This made it much easier to start a cut.  I left the remainder of the teeth alone.

The tote is made from locally sourced walnut that I got from a friend and I used a pattern I downloaded from blackburntools.com.  This is the small size pattern since I was making it to fit my niece.  I reused the original brass saw bolts.

I'm still new to saw sharpening but I'm happy with the way it turned out and the way it cuts.  My niece was pleased with it as well.

Welcome to my blog

For the past few years I have been posting all of my hobby related stuff at my website www.mikescncshop.com.  I find that maintaining the website can be fairly time consuming.  Consequently, I haven't done a very good job of keeping it up to date.

I noticed that many of the articles I have on the website take on a blog-like appearance.  It seems like the logical next step should be to just start a blog.  I intend to keep the website as an archive of past projects but new items will be posted here.

Even though the original website url would imply that the site is strictly about CNC, I find that I have a lot of non-CNC content as I have a wide variety of interests.

Thanks for looking,
Mike