chainsaw common sense

[woodworkingboy]

Thanks Willard...wasn't someone mentioning getting a little cash for likable posts?

If you walked down the street where the saw sharpening shop was, you'd hear the tapping on the anvils when the two brothers were setting the teeth, or in the warm months with the windows open, the files sliding across the steel. The place had been there for many years. They sat on little cushions on an elevated platform above the floor. The dark wood platform was well polished. Even when cutting new teeth into a blank, they would do it all by hand. It wasn't long after the disposables came out that they closed up. I guess that they saw the writing on the wall. Still, I'm glad to have the image of those workers in my memory. Nice guys to chat with.

I have one disposable blade saw for woodwork. it tends to be my beater, though.

 

[HolmenTree]

Thanks for sharing that Jay. I definitely have to visit Japan one day, so much to see and experience.
Here in Canada we have a retail company called Lee Valley Tools. Leonard Lee started out as a poor farmers son from near my hometown in Saskatchewan. He started up a store in Ottawa [Canada's capital] now has stores right across Canada. I have done business with Mr Lee since he had his 1st store. He sells and also manufactures some of the best woodworking tools in the world, Japanese being some of his his premium sold.
I don't know if I'm allowed to post another companies website on here, so if its ok with Butch here it is. www.leevalley.com
Scroll down and you can view their 268 page woodworking online catalog.

Willard.

 

[Newfie]

There are no siily rules preventing members from posting links here at the TH. No gestapo here.

 

[TreeDimensional]

I always feel "under dressed" when I go into the Lee Valley store in S'toon. A three piece suit would likely be appropriate!!!!

 

[HolmenTree]

I always feel "under dressed" when I go into the Lee Valley store in S'toon. A three piece suit would likely be appropriate!!!!

Mr Lee would have none of that. Himself once being a poor farm boy and working the land he is very down to earth from what I felt when I talked to him over the phone 30 yrs ago. He certainly built quite an empire though. You want some of the finest in woodworking tools available in North America, they got it.

Willard.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Post your link, Willard. I don't GAS.

 

[stig]

Lee valley is a GREAT place.
When I first took up woodturning, back before the internet got going, I was unable to get any good tools in Denmark.
After getting along for some years with less than mediocre chisels and gouges, a log house builder gave me Lee Valley's adress.

I called them on the phone and asked them to mail me a catalogue and when I opened it to the woodturning section, it was like getting a peek into paradise.

I ordered a shitload of good stuff from them, and it improved my turning no end.

Today things are just so much simpler.
Yesterday I ordered a bunch of pants and stuff from Arborwear, without even thinking about it.
Ordering stuff from overseas is just something I do, today.
No big deal anymore.

But I still remember the day, that crate of goodies from Lee Valley showed up on my doorstep