Recycling old saws into scrapers.
Sometimes, an old saw is just not worth salvaging. Sure, if good enough, the handle and bolts/nuts can be all be saved to use again when repairing or re-building another saw. There are times when it is the saw plate that will be utilized instead. Amongst my huge pile of old saws awaiting rebirth, there was a very tired post WWII Disston panel saw which had a ruined handle. The saw plate had a bit of surface rust, but nothing too drastic. I had a need to make some more curved scrapers for spoon carving, so set about cutting up the saw. This was initially done with a guillotine. Saw meets guillotine ... Dividers were used to draw curves on the ends of the pieces of saw plate, and the guillotine and heavy tin snips were used to remove much of the waste. The rest was done with a bench grinder, to create the final shapes of the scrapers. The first few scrapers taking shape. Once the required shapes are made good with a bench grinder, the scrapers's edges need...