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Long-time carpenter and Popular Woodworking Magazine contributor Carl Bilderback sent me this image a few days back, and said I should come up with a clever caption about it being a baby picture of housewright Ron Herman. But I seem to be fresh out of clever – so I’m leaving it in your hands. Submit your caption of 50 or fewer words in the comments section by midnight on Sunday (Oct. 23). The writer of whichever caption I find to be the most amusing will win one copy each of Ron’s “Sharpen Your Handsaws” and “The Joinery Challenge” videos.
Yes, it’s awfully subjective – but this might help: Monty Python? Hilarious. Anything with Will Ferrell? Couldn’t tell you, because I refuse to watch it. “Strindberg & Helium?” Funniest. Cartoon. Ever. (And Ser Schwarz is pretty funny too…at least when he’s channeling Monty Python.)
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OK GRANDPA,I AM GOING TO SHOW YOU ONE MORE TIME HOW YOU SHARPEN YOUR SAWS, YOU NEED TO GET A HANDLE ON THIS
I know my eyes don’t work Dad, but are you sure this is my normal piano??
Is this the best you can do? Where are all those Disstons and such you are always bragging about to your wood buddies?
Very funny, Pa. Why don’t YOU get a handle on THIS?!
Oh drat, I’ll never grow up to be a WIA rock star if I don’t quit breaking the handles when sharpening these saws.
What? Oh, when you said “now for something completely different” I was thinking “Okay! You know, if that handle were angled more…”
But you meant different as in sharpening a rip saw today. Sorry!
I just can’t get a handle on sharpening!
Get a handle on it Grandpa Ron, I thought you said you were going to tote me to the see-saw to sharpen my skills, not teach me skills at sharpening a saw and fixing a tote.
“Well a guess there is always journalism”, thought young Christopher…
I mean really…it’s a SAW, not a hammer!
One more and it’s the WEEK END!!!
A young Roy Underhill borrows Chris Schwarz’s saw.
Think how young he is, think how he might not know love of Roubo….
Here we see a young Ron Herman cutting some teeth before he could even cut his own.
I’m learning to play the saw,
But there seems to be a flaw,
My fingers are getting raw.
I’d like to play some Handel,
but I think I broke my handle.
So upon reflection,
I’m taking another direction,
Maybe I’ll learn to draw.
Welcome to the Woodwrights Shop.
Don’t laugh, someday I’ll be making videos about this.
I said I wanted a seesaw, not a ripsaw.
Little Olaf Koorkijldminarluuf would exact his revenge on the moose that bit his sister.
They told me I could become anyone.
So I became Tom Law.
A little known, and very sad fact is that young Ron was sold into slavery at age 2 by his parents so they could afford cable TV. His masters were a band of traveling minstrel saw sharpeners who immediately pressed Ron into service sharpening hundreds of saws a day.
At an early age Ron could divine which tooth was off.
This kind of work is going to make an old man out of me.
Once I can change my own diaper, I’m NEVER touching another hand tool.
“I’ve sharpened tens of saws in my lifetime…”
(Cue banjo music) “Welcome to Season 1-Episode 1 of “This Old Saw”
Dad, is this a Gramercy vise, where’s my Acme?
“Hmm, very nice. Filed rip and sticky sharp too. Oops, that was the jelly on my fingers.”
Dad says I can cut my teeth on this! Chris Schwarz
I forgot, Monty Python…
WHO USED THIS TO CUT SPAM?
I’ve sharpend thousands of these and this is the first time the handle did that! Not my fault!
Saws! there a dime a dozen, but VICES will come and go as I grow!
“When you only have a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”
“Oh, I see, solitary. Just a man and his thoughts. And his file. And a his vise. Nobody knows…”
You think Dad is going to be mad when he sees his saw,
wait till he sees what is in my pants!!
You want it when????
I wish Chris would stop sending me his saws to restore.
Looks about wright to me
or
Looks perfect to me
Let him cut his baby teeth on this. When he’s ready for his permanent teeth I’ll upgrade him to a set of Seaton tool chest saws.
Right. I know I only have two years ‘prenticeship under me belt, but I built my own high chair. Mum says I can work for sixpence an hour plus lollipops.
To the boy with a hammer, the world is a nail. That goes double for handles.
Mom, You do have those Band-aids handy, Right?
Dull, spineless and broke is no way to go through life – But it is a hell of a way to fit in with the rest of society.
Look Dad! I sharpen your saw for you! Handle? No, don’t look at the handle Dad. Here! I sharpen your saw!
If Dad gives me one more lousy saw to sharpen,I’m using my hammer on something besides my plane iron!
Too much fleam. Do it again.
Careful, kid, you’ll shoot your eye out. Errum, I mean, saw your leg off. Or at least prick your finger. Those teeth are pointy!
a still of Roy Underhill from the long lost pilot episode of The Woodwright’s Shop.
But I’m FIXIN’ it!
too much set?
Rip or crosscut?
Don’t ask me about nibs again!
‘They sure don’t make ’em like they used to’
Third tooth in and i already pooped myself. This is really embarrassing.
This saw handle ‘as kicked the bucket, it’s shuffled off it’s mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin’ choir invisibile!!
THIS IS AN EX-SAW HANDLE!!