Rare 1860s Disston eagle medallion hand saw | Restoration

[@Fouqueria1]

Love your videos! I also love restoring old tools that I find in antique shops. Junk yards and thrift stores. Thanks for sharing!

[@thehandtoolworks]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@texanthom]

I love how you left the character and history in the saw!

[@thehandtoolworks]

Thanks Thom! I love how old tools connect us with past generations.

[@roybailey9554]

Love watching you doing your restorations on your saws you manage to do enough to make them look fantastic without spoiling them, best wishes from England from a vintage Carpenter .

[@thehandtoolworks]

Many thanks Roy, you're kind feedback means a lot!

[@joseffroula7415]

Really nice work. I learned a lot watching this. Thanks for the great content.

[@thehandtoolworks]

Thank you Josef! Glad you found it helpful.

[@toolscarriagesmodellbauand7246]

I love your presenting wall. Great.

[@thehandtoolworks]

Thank you! I need to expand it to add more tools!

[@j.r.tidwell3318]

This is the 2nd video I’ve watched of yours. I really like how it’s hand tools only. I love to see someone do work to old way. My father was middle aged when I was born and I’m 64 and he still did a lot of things from the old way. Wish I payed more attention. The carving you did on the chisel restore video was very interesting.. I like and subscribed 👍

[@thehandtoolworks]

Thanks JR! It's super rewarding to carry on the traditional methods your father's generation grew up with. Welcome to the channel!

[@CuttingEdgetools]

Beautiful Work👍

[@thehandtoolworks]

Thank you @2ndChance56, Cheers!

[@moonlightsnowfall6734]

Good job, looks nice. Taking a little off the tooth set on the side its pulling too is a great fix, thanks!

[@thehandtoolworks]

Thanks! It's such a pleasure to work with a saw that follows the line practically on its own.

[@kelvincolemanAnimal]

Awesome job I also learned some very good tips 👍👍👍😊😊😊♥️

[@thehandtoolworks]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@gardeningpreacher]

I loved it! Beautiful saw and a great job restoring it! I now have to subscribe!

[@thehandtoolworks]

Thank you very much and welcome to the channel!

[@clappercl]

Great video!

[@thehandtoolworks]

Thanks!

[@willkress8309]

Very nice job! Also a bit of info you may have already known: from what I understand, the combination of the Eagle medallion with the Henry Disston etch (his first etch) was only produced in early 1865. Shortly thereafter his son Hamilton Disston joined the company and the “and son” was added to the etch. Very nice piece of history well taken care of!

[@thehandtoolworks]

Thanks Will, great information! I wonder how many saws with that combination could have possibly survived intact to the present day.

[@rlm98253]

Very impressive. Well done, sir. Subscribed.

[@thehandtoolworks]

Thank you. Much appreciated!

[@robertlevine2152]

Please leave your comments on for a little longer. It is hard to watch what you're doing and read the notes simultaneously. Also, it would help if you provided fonts with a better contrast. Is there any reason you don't start with a rust remover like Evaporust? I liked how you made a custom screwdriver. Thanks, Bob

[@larryohara6513]

Why didn't you remove the handle to clean it?

[@thehandtoolworks]

Good question @larryohara6513! There are a few reasons I didn't remove the handle: -With saws this old, its common for the wood of the handle to have swollen a bit over the decades/centuries so that the brass nuts are slightly embedded in the wood and can't be removed without tearing out the wood around the perimeter of the hole that the nut sits in. This was the case with several of the saw nuts. -The steel underneath the handle is well protected and therefore usually clean and free of rust unless the saw is in bad shape. -Saw nuts of this period were designed to be more or less permanent and I'm happy to leave them alone and not risk damaging them unless it's really needed, especially with a super rare saw like this.

[@larryohara6513]

OK, I noticed that you had to tighten the handle and that would indicate to me that there maybe some intrusion under the handle. I myself remove the handle (very carefully same concern as you have) and most of the time if the handle was lose I will find rust. Nice job of flattening the blade.