hacksaws

[Clark Badgett]

I'm using an old model I found in a junk shop in Oklahoma a few years ago. It has the straight handle. I also run the blade to cut on the pull stroke.

[Canute Rex]

What Sweed said. When I was a young teen I spent time at the shop of Henry D. Palmer, a machinist, blacksmith, gunsmith, muzzleloader shooter, and general Yankee mechanic. He also taught me to lift the hacksaw a little on the backstroke. It becomes second nature.

 

[James Wilson Everett]

Guys,

The old originals are really the best.  Here is one that has been used for 200 years and is still great and, also, very rigid when compared to the modern ones.

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The place where modern hacksaws are clearly superior is the blades - no comparison here.  These are photos of an original hacksaw blade.





Jim