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Old Ladies - Pedder's blog
New Veritas Saw set
Veritas released their new saw set: https://www.leevalley.com/en-us/shop/tools/hand-tools/118411-veritas-saw-set
I had the chance to test a prototype earlier this year. First impression:
Wonderfully made tool.
Smooth comfortable handle.
Clear view on the teeth.
Wide flats to rest on many teeth.
Extrem slim hammer, to meet the tiniest teeth.
An anvil adjustment with letters, not numbers. No more confusion.
Any downside? Not really. The set weights double or more than the Stanley 42x, wich it was mostly inspired by. And I have the same problem as I have with the Stanley 42x: I cannot set blades in my saw vise, because the handle and the vise need the same space.
Mike Wenzloff
Tonight I learned, that Mike Wenzloff passed away 25/7/25. Thanks to Chris Schwarz to let us know: https://blog.lostartpress.com/2025/09/22/losses-to-the-craft-mike-wenzloff-charles-hummel
Mike Wenzloff and Leif Hanson are the two guy, who lead me into saw making with their Blogs and Forum entries. I spend the evenening rereading Mikes entries on UKW: https://www.ukworkshop.co.uk/search/2338188/?page=50&c[users]=MikeW&o=date He was such a nice guy allways sharing his big knowledge. I missed him for a long time.
Holztechnisches Museum Rosenheim
Behind an ice and coffee restaurant in the centre of Rosenheim hides the Holztechnisches Museum Rosenheim. Christopher Schwarz from Lost Art Press brought it to my attention and as I passed Rosenheim on my way from Slovenia last weekend I visited it with my long-suffering and not so much complaining wife. (Had to invite her to a Wurstsalat afterwards.)
It is a kind of old fashioned Museum, with a lot of Show cases, some very detailed miniatures of saw mills and some screen with videos. There are very few interactiv place, but you can try a plane and pull a log by hand.
I concentrate on the displayed saws.
The teeth of a two man crosscut saw. You can see the trces of the flat or fether file used to sharpen each surface of the tooth seperatly.
Simple tow man pit saw. (To saw boards from logs.)
Drawing and picture of a sawing pit. Shown used with a 3 man frame saw.
Next object is this giant fram saw. I can not imagine that it was designet to be use by hands. I think it was oart of a water or animal driven saw mill.
The direction of the teeth changes in the middle. Lot of space between the teeth to clloect big amounts of shavings.
There is a lot more in this museum, but I think I will not show all the pictures I made. You will have to go on your own.
But this one I cannot keep to myself: Never saw a holdfast in Germany before:
