Honey, I Finished The Internet

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1. Here’s more than you’ll ever want to know about saw nibs.

   WARNING! Link is suitable only for those tired of politics and the evil antics of our “Moral and Intellectual Superiors” and for old hand tool collectors like me.

   https://craftsofnj.org/images/sitemedia/toolshed/Tool%20Shed%20No137-200506.pdf

2. My crafty journeyman told me it was for gauging how far you are on the up stroke when ripping or cross cutting wood not that I ever possessed a saw with that peculiarity but I do remember seeing it once or twice in my life.
   I still have my rip and crosscut saw in my repertoire of hand tools that were issued to me at the the beginning of my apprenticeship many moons ago…I can count on one hand how many times I’ve used them and quite frankly I’m not sure why they’re still around.
   I doubt a millennial would know the difference between the two these days.
   Fun fact: My Uncle, a craftsman in every sense of the word would use a hammer and a punch to put a set on his handsaw after sharpening the teeth…everything was right in his world if a needle could slide down the length of the saw without falling off.
   This concludes Hand tools with Burton

3. Thanks for the information on saws in your comments, someone, someday soon may need to sharpen a saw to cut a piece of wood when the power is off for a long time

   1. My old dad used to say, “A man without tools and the ability to use them is just another monkey”. He taught me well. I have made it my business to have all the hand-tools (and the ability to use them) to hand for the inevitable SHTF scenario.

4. Appears the link doesn’t match.

   1. Ugh, bad cut and paste. Thanks.

5. What a cool workshop!