Old beat to hell mix and matched flat top on my bench. Top end is mint, bottom is roached . runs mint but i Think I'm gonna shelf it for another day. Got a few other saws to do anyways.
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Here's the homemade handle that was on it. Someone crafty and with more patience then me made it. yes that is cast iron and yes it weighs as much as half of the saw lol. I think this saw must have belonged to a cull.
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>yes that is cast iron
wow, really? never seen cast iron homemade into a handle like that... nor drill hole edges as such in all the cast iron I have drilled. looks like rusty mild steel. bent like mild steel tubing... flattened at the curve on L. but cast iron u say, so guess it is. any pix of ends? how was it made? to me would have taken a pattern... and for a saw handle??
maybe made from black pipe or similar, but how to bend it as such?...