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other woods used for tools - fruitier (pear etc), chene (oak), ash (frene) and beech (hetre) in rough order of cost - looks like I'm trying to show off, but just been reading an old French tool cata, so let me off -- also use box as UK but not so common and some form of holm oak?

I think this is the same as cormier (French), which was/is much used for the best quality wood tool handles/plane bodies etc

Cintride (of Bakewell, Derbs) made tungsten carbide grit 'blades' of 3 grades to fit the Surform (UK invention, company later taken over by Stanley, who then dropped their similar Stanley-Shaper line). Useful kit.

does the fixed length match that of a violin?

When I was working in eng - remember visiting a brass/bronze foundry in Huddersfield/Halifax area which also had a (steel) chain-making division - wonderful to watch the hand hammer welding of the links

Are they still in Dereham, Norfolk? also was a German co w almost same name

will do if nec but a v straightforward 26in hand saw, trad horned handle w 3 flat-top brass screws, no medallion, no etching

I have a vintage hand saw marked 'Pioneer, Sheffield' (stamped on the blade) - anyone know if which maker used this, or is it the name-mark of a maker? - name is stamped, not etched, on blade - don't see it at first look through S Barley's reference book.

so the next q is --- what could you repurpose it as??

My great great gfather was coxswain on the N Deal lifeboat about that time and a bit before - there's an old book about the crews -"Heroes of the Goodwin Sands" ps this should actually be reply to Phil

see you're in bradford - I call that town the birthplace of British cast iron vice-making - Parkinson and earlier - if you have too many - is there a Bradford industrial museum that highlights this and could do with examples I might have one or two to give)

and didn't some of the Spanish armada get wrecked on the way round, escaping from Drake??

interesting

anyone else use these as handy and v cheap dowels, plugs & hole fillers knowledge about woods (eg bamboo, whitewood) to share? I always keep a range of these for odd jobs (eg just filled a couple of ancient wormholes w superglued toothpicks - hammer in, pare off)

teak