Travis Johnson
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This is way too early in the game to be putting pictures on the net, but Alan DuBoff insisted so here goes. Just keep in mind that this dovetail saw is still in the most earliest of stages and I have no idea what I am doing really.
This is a picture of the blade and spline.Both are made of stainless steel. I kicked the end of it towards the handle by 45º just to give the saw a different look, and because I could. I am not sure if this is going to be an issue down the road or not. I don't think so.
What might bean issue is the narrow spline. I thought it was ½ wide, but I forgot this is imported German made stainless steel. The spline is actually in mm and around .400 wide. This might be too narrow for the 3½ wide blade that is 14 inches long?
Obviously being a presentation saw this is going to be a polished stainless saw. As for the handle I kicked around some ideas. Apple, cherry, and and highly figured wood like birds eye ash or maple got some thoughts, but now I am steering towards Staghorn Sumac.
What?
Well this saw is going to be in a case, and Staghorn Sumac glows in the dark when you put a blacklight in there. Since its in a case, I could have a mini black light and I think the greenish-yellowish glow of the handle would look cool with the polished stainless steel? Staghorn Sumac is also something I grow on my woodlot so I can obtain it easily. Still a thought in process on that one though. The handle is a HUGE part of a saw,especially a presentation saw so I am still mulling the handle idea of Sumac over.(Strength, looks,etc)
Other ideas for this are a trick handle. A "knob" if you will that will hold a scribe. The scribe will be bored into the handle...with the handle of the scribe looking just like an extension of the handle itself, until you pull it out of its bore by tugging against the magnetics that hold it in place. Not surprisingly my stainless steel fetish rears its ugly head again here too, with the scribe being made of stainless except for the inner hilt of the scribe. That would be carbon steel just to give the magnetics something to bite onto.
The last part, the split-nuts will be very mundane. Polished stainless steel, but nothing trick to them.Well enough blabbing, here is what I got so far:
This is a picture of the blade and spline.Both are made of stainless steel. I kicked the end of it towards the handle by 45º just to give the saw a different look, and because I could. I am not sure if this is going to be an issue down the road or not. I don't think so.
What might bean issue is the narrow spline. I thought it was ½ wide, but I forgot this is imported German made stainless steel. The spline is actually in mm and around .400 wide. This might be too narrow for the 3½ wide blade that is 14 inches long?
Obviously being a presentation saw this is going to be a polished stainless saw. As for the handle I kicked around some ideas. Apple, cherry, and and highly figured wood like birds eye ash or maple got some thoughts, but now I am steering towards Staghorn Sumac.
What?
Well this saw is going to be in a case, and Staghorn Sumac glows in the dark when you put a blacklight in there. Since its in a case, I could have a mini black light and I think the greenish-yellowish glow of the handle would look cool with the polished stainless steel? Staghorn Sumac is also something I grow on my woodlot so I can obtain it easily. Still a thought in process on that one though. The handle is a HUGE part of a saw,especially a presentation saw so I am still mulling the handle idea of Sumac over.(Strength, looks,etc)
Other ideas for this are a trick handle. A "knob" if you will that will hold a scribe. The scribe will be bored into the handle...with the handle of the scribe looking just like an extension of the handle itself, until you pull it out of its bore by tugging against the magnetics that hold it in place. Not surprisingly my stainless steel fetish rears its ugly head again here too, with the scribe being made of stainless except for the inner hilt of the scribe. That would be carbon steel just to give the magnetics something to bite onto.
The last part, the split-nuts will be very mundane. Polished stainless steel, but nothing trick to them.Well enough blabbing, here is what I got so far:
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