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Master Saw Sharpening & Maintenance Skills: Build Your Own Bad Axe with Mark Harrell
June 24-28, 2024
$950.00
$300 material fee payable to Mark
About this Class
Let’s demystify saw sharpening and master the skills required to restore your vintage saw collection with confidence, and build your own Bad Axe with Mark Harrell, owner of Bad Axe Tool Works. Mark’s five-day course enables tool resellers, entrepreneurs and hobbyist woodworkers at large to maintain, retension, retooth, hammer-set, and sharpen-to-joint hand, panel, frame and backsaws across a variety of pitches. The course culminates in a graduation exercise in which the student builds his or her own Bad Axe Precision Carcase Saw (included in course tuition). Instructional methods center on historical techniques and best practices employed by craftsmen from over three centuries of western traditional saw making.
Key Points
- Assess, evaluate, restore and maintain an array of vintage backsaws and handsaws
- Build your own inexpensive saw sharpening vise and maintenance system
- Hammer-set and sharpen-to-joint carcase, tenon, panel and handsaws across a variety of pitches
- Reshape an asymmetrical toothline with differently sized files to achieve consistent rake, bevel and symmetry
- Maximize a saw’s performance
- Understanding of how plate gauge, pitch and sawtoothcgeometry work together
- Build your own Bad Axe 14” (35.5 cm) precision carcase saw
Additional Information
Workshop Days: Monday to Friday
Instruction Time: 8:00am – 5:00pm (EDT)
Note: During the work week, the shop remains open after 6:00 p.m. for handwork, design, research, catch-up work and socializing. Tuesday night features a slide presentation by the instructors and a dinner that spouses, friends, and family are welcome to attend.
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$950.00
Master Saw Sharpening & Maintenance Skills: Build Your Own Bad Axe with Mark Harrell June 24-28, 2024
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