Modern Cheap Saw Frame DESTROYS Grobet!

[@lewwis]

These are also sold as a Grober TS122 frame, have both frames you have here, the TS122 is certainly my favourite for technical work

[@allanfink6138]

I have used frames with new designs that clamp the blade ends with screws, the way your new saw does. For very fine saw blades I actually prefer to use the cheaper frames that pinch the end of the blade with a small square of metal, rather than the point of a screw. They seem to hold the finer blades batter. I have trouble getting the screw tip ones to hold the blade end securely. I think "coping saws" are actually a tiny bit different, in their blade ends have small pins in them that the frame holds onto. Jewelers blades have no pins.

[@DiamondMounter]

That rings a bell for me I remember blades slipping out of the grobet when it was new so i removed the screw and paper disced the end and it solved the problem. The screws should be a wider gauge I guess

[@maciejsierzchaa9901]

I am using antilope long time. You need make a hole under the place where balde is. In the other way blade will jump out

[@pyrosparkes]

personally i dont like the styling of either of them, but each to their own. the one i use is eclipse brand, just one i found at a recycling centre (eclipse no. 50 apparently). the upright from the wooden handle is aluminium, but adjustable frame is steel, so it does have the problem of being top heavy, which i hadnt noticed till just now, so thanks.... but its really solid despite probably being really old, and cost me a quid, so im happy with it.

[@lordmark4966]

any saw blade without winged nuts is unusable to me, i dont like the crappy rounded screws or the plastic garbo turn thingys. my two saw frames are easily 50 years old wooden with steel and winged nuts. sure it may weigh 1000x what the new ones do but its a tank that never fails and the weight can be used as an advantage when down cutting

[@DiamondMounter]

I prefer old cars and motorbikes but for tools I seem to like modern ones more

[@lordmark4966]

@@DiamondMounter to a certain degree id agree but a lot of the new tools nowadays are made far cheaper and not for extensive use like the older ones were in most cases like files/compass/clamps/ tweezers.

[@DiamondMounter]

@@lordmark4966 100% true. I recently spent a load of money on new equipment and chose from the best quality available so I perhaps mistakenly did not consider all the total waste of money cheap cack out there.

[@Gazz_R]

It looks like Grobet's fixed frame saw. Thanks for sharing and enjoy the rest of your week.

[@flyingcheff]

Chris, I can't find that saw frame. All I see are Antilope saw blades. Neither "harp" or "Antilope" generates a source. I'm interested. Do you have any more info? Thank you.

[@birdy3934]

Try translating your searches to Japanese. Harp is a Japanese company

[@flyingcheff]

@birdy3934 I'll try that, and thank you for the suggestion. I do, however see the actual name on the saw, it's not in Kanji. I typed Harp saw Nihongo.

[@shannonneill227]

Who makes the new frame?

[@allanfink6138]

I think he called it an Antelope. See 2:45 ish.

[@DiamondMounter]

Its a japanese brand 'Harp'

[@flyingcheff]

​@DiamondMounter Where to find? Website? So weird that there is zero info about in on the entire web (so far in my search...).

[@lewwis]

Grober TS122 will be the same frame

[@flyingcheff]

@@lewwis thanks!!