Not just mousetraps

[old-biker-uk]

Saw a saw (?) like this recently on a well known auction site & being too mean to bid for it I made one. (No I am not Scottish, just married to one !)

Mark

[madman]

Old Amputation device before the new remove leg in 10 seconds with the ring pull cable abrasive saw. Ouch no kidding my buddys leg was off in less than 10 seconds.

[A.K. Boomer]

nice quality work --- that is a blast into the past...

[Alan Smith]

Nice saw Mark, is that stainless steel? with a ?6" hacksaw blade.

Madman the "abrasive cable saw" you refer to is Gigli wire or embryotomy wire and I can assure you it is hard work.Give me an air saw any day.

Alan

[Your Old Dog]

Nicely done! Do you do knives as well? You might like it, sort of sculpture with a practical use. Looks like you might have a 2x72" belt grinder?

[Carld]

Real nice work Mark.

[Dawai]

ow many newcastle browns did it take to make the saw?

John S got me ta drinkin them, my poor pup, he'd climb your leg and take it away. He'd ignore ya if ya was drinking budwieser.

Did you do a drawing on the saw, or just start whittlin?

Looks to be aluminum to me. Is it?

I need to practise some finesse on tools. Generaly I use them for construction of the end result, Jigs get used on the cnc then tossed out back.

AND yes, Mike I used to carry a wire saw. It cuts according to the pressure you exert into it. Mine is vietnam era. I had one A special forces bud gave me. According to him they'd behead a viet cong, and kick the head for yardage. They had to have a witness. He had lost all his hair, died of terminal cancer. His family told me probably of exposure to agent orange. With his heroin habit he brought back, I suspect he had a lot more health issues than that. He had a lot more problems than me for sure. He went to vietnam one person and came back another. I was too young to be involved with that war.

[Mcgyver]

nice work Mark, can you give us more about how you made it, forged or abraded away, AL or stainless, handles etc.

[Norman Atkinson]

David!

I keep telling folks on your side of the Pond that Newcastle 'Broon' is actually drinking 'Lunatics Broth'.
Again, I live not only in Newcastle but in- well, the grounds of a mental institution which was built for such eventualities.

There are those amongst us who think that Matron who appears from time to time is a fiction. Not so, St Nicholas Hospital in Coxlodge, Gosforth is genuine enough, so is Lanesborough Court which is part of the old hospital and I live, oddly, in what was the farm which supplied the inmates with food.

And it doesn't affect me, and it doesn't affect me, and it doesn't affect me.

And Madam- not Matron has such evil tools still in her possesion.

Now it so happens that the spare skull- that's the one with the lid has gone in its Jacobs Cream Cracker box to Leeds where my daughter now holds sway.
How do you trepann a skull? You use a saw- as depicted!

Err, yes? So, David, need I say more?

Cheers

Norm

[old-biker-uk]

Hi All - Thanks - it's good to get some feedback on the work. Did'nt count the beers, probably just as well in case SWMBO reads this !
The original pic gave no idication of size so I made it to take our 'Junior' hacksaw blades (about 6" pin to pin).

All mild steel apart from the ebony handle & nickle silver rivets, I used what was in the w/shop so the frame ends are from pre-used (ex. dumpster) 1/4" hot rolled plate , the rest from bar & flat stock. All hand filed apart from milling the various slots and a bit of turning on the turnbuckle & blade holders. The turnbuckle threads could be a bit finer but the only left hand tap & die I had was 1/8" Whit. so used that. The blade holders fit in broached square holes so the blade can be turned thro 90 deg. The final finish is just draw file - emery cloth & Scotchbright. I had considered blackening, either oil or gun black but decided against.
This retirement is great - should have done it years ago. Too cold & wet here to get in the garage & play with the bikes so into the workshop, turn up the Ipod speakers and turn 'stuff' into 'things'
Mark