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When tempering the saw teeth, If you go to first Dull red, tooth will show a dull red in a low lighted room. That temperature is about 650 degrees. Which will be plenty soft to file or set. If you go to a bright red, it will be over 800 degrees and could be brittle when it cools. Always let the saw ...

I've found that most of the big four companies, Simonds 54RC, Disston 52RC, Olen-Bishop 52RC had tempered their saws to around 50 to 54 RC, Atkins would be a little harder 54-58 RC. When at 58 or more the file will skate on the steel and dull your file pretty fast. Some of the Simonds would be harde...

I see a lot of questions concerning cleaning saw steel. Another filer from another group made this PDF on cleaning saws. It has worked for me. It was made mostly for smaller hand saws, but works well on the larger crosscuts as well.

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If I plan to re-temper Rakers. I save that for when I swage the Rakers. It's easy to move the tips of Rakers when the steel is warm. practice holding your propane torch and hammering at the same time. polish, brighten the tooth before, so you can watch the oxidizing color and try to keep under 500 d...

I see it more in almost new saws, where the factory sets the tooth, too close to the end or tip of tooth. setting a tooth where the fulcrum point is 1/4" to 5/16" from tip is better. I find also where the break will be at the fulcrum point, if the anvil has to sharp of a corner. A more rounded fulcr...

Some of the sawmills I've worked at used a metal detector after the debarker. Most of the time the operators that were supposed to monitor it didn't want to get out of the cab to look. So we called the Band saws the metal detector. You name it pretty much everything has been in logs going into the m...

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