#12
Think they'd be much happier with a well shaped wood handle

https://youtu.be/lTC4po-BywA
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#13
Plastic? Wood is a material made up of long chain molecules that we call polymers. That's a technical way of saying plastic.

HDPE just is another polymer material.
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#14
(01-26-2017, 07:19 PM)fletcherj Wrote: Plastic? Wood is a material made up of long chain molecules that we call polymers. That's a technical way of saying plastic.

HDPE just is another polymer material.

I'm sure you're saying this tongue-in-cheek.  That said...

All plastics are polymers, but not all polymers are plastic.  Cellulose is neither moldable nor malleable, which is a key property of plastics.  DNA is a polymer also, but it's not a plastic.

I like the feel of wood handles better also - as long as they are shaped properly.  I prefer the plastic handle of a Cosman dovetail saw to some of the bulky wood handles like on the Pax saws, simply because the Cosman handles are shaped better.
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#15
my neighbor was selling his dad's tools, and he had a saw with a Bakelite handle.  It's actually the best one of the bunch.  They were all pretty low-end saws.Think he was selling them for a quarter.  I missed out on the good stuff, took me a while to go home and get my wallet and in the interim someone came and bought most of the tools.
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#16
Just thought the user in the video would like a nicer saw
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#17
that's very thoughtful.  Probably needs to be sharpened
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#18
Allan-bought a Pax sash saw from "The Best Things" a few years back. Less than half the cost of the boutique makers and easily their equal. Had a walnut handle, easily reshaped in about an hour or two, including applying some BLO that matched prior finish perfectly. I view Pax as an "unknown known" for excellent tools at great prices, though some user fitting may be needed.

I've also taken a rasp to several other saws (one was a LN custom made miter box saw) to fit to my hands, as I've done to totes on hand planes.
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#19
For that reasons I got that
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and did this
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and finally
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and like it that way
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what about you?
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#20
EricU: Disston put bakelite handles on some of their saws, including the higher end D95. Those saws were two-tone, in a variety of combo colors. a D95 for a quarter is a real buy (in my accumulation, I have at least one of each color combo).
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#21
Yuri, that's a nice clean trade off in handle.

As for the clip, I don't think I want strangers on my porch doing monkey business.
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I don't like plastic saw handles


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