I picked up an old dovetail saw off of Craigslist a little while back with the intent to clean up and use.
This saw was manufactured by Kaye and Sons in Hull England.
A bit of info on the company can be found here.
http://tskayeandsons.weebly.com/
From this site, we know that the saw was made sometime between 1877 and WWII. (When the Bond St facility noted on the spine was bombed)
When I got this saw, the tote was quite loose and had some cracks. I shored up the cracks with generous amounts of BLO and a bit of CA glue in a couple spots. I just put a few coats of wax on the tote after cleaning it.
I used electrolysis to de-rust the blade followed bit a bit of sanding. I cleaned the brass but didn’t fully polish it because that wasn’t the look I was going after.
It is sharpened to 16ppi and I’ve already started to develop some new patina for it in use.
