![]() If you know better, please do let me know. My theories are far from bullet proof, but as long as I'm making the assumptions myself, this will be my assumption. The Högboo "etch" could also have been an attempt to make the saws more attractive. This doesn't have to mean that the hang hole was a later invention, but it is indicative enough to make me believe that there could either have been different handle materials used for different markets or that Sandvik wanted to pimp their saws in order to make more profit, hence reintroducing a wooden handle on certain models. Högboo saws with wooden handles do have a hang hole. This Högboo saw has a plastic handle but no hang hole. Well, this isn't entirely true, I fear, at leads not as far as Sandvik is concerned. A general notion is that plastic handles are later than wooden handles. Since I'm trying to create a timeline for the Sandvik saw production, I have some theories which currently form the foundation of my studies. I have no ideas why Sandvik though Finns only wanted crosscut saws and a fixed tooth configuration, and I'd be happy to be found wrong, but in three years of rust hunting I've had about 30-40 Sandvik 270 series hand saws, and I've never seen saws configured any differently. I have yet to find one single premium Sandvik saw that would have been filed anything else than crosscut and the variation in teeth per inch is just one tooth per inch. This example was found in my native Finland, and as always seems to be the case around here, it is a crosscut saw filed 6 TPI or 7 PPI. Tthis is the first I've seen with a plastic handle. ![]() I have seen several "Högboo" saws before but they have all been fitted with hardwood handles. This saw would fit in rather late in the Sandvik production, probably not being made before the 1980s. The Högboo "etch" refers to a celebration of sorts, but the etch is nothing more than a print. Although it sports the Högboo etch, it is actually a model no 277 straight back saw, one of Sandvik's best and longest living models. This saw has a plastic handle and Phillips saw nuts made of brass. The saw has been cleaned, polished and the tooth line has been jointed, refiled with moderately sloping gullets and set to work as a quick and efficient, yet user friendly saw. This is a 24 inch Sandvik no 277 hand saw filed crosscut at 6 TPI.
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