I seem to recall my grandfather telling me how he used to use the two man cross cut saw.  They would have a glass soda bottle filled with terpentine and used pine straw stuffed out the top as a wick.  When the saw got gummed up they would use the bottle/brush combination, kind of fight fire with fire so to speak.  Have no idea if it works, but kinda makes sense.

Thomp ~

 

Try taking the file rasp and rubbing it on a piece of bar soap ( regular hand bar soap ) rub generously and then try filing....this will make the rasp go into the wood better and should release the sawdust better. 

Old trick I learned from my  Grandpa. 

I have done this myself and it does work.

 

Good luck  I would really like to see a picture when you get it completed.   Contact me at [email protected]

 

Mousey

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hawk lady,

 

thanks for the input,

 the bench was a bust, grandmaw found ont of the childrens iron backyard benches for sale on a clearance rack, and bought it fot $15.00 so now i have time ou carved deeply into a nice 14" wide old groth yellow pine plank... maybe i can use it for him a step up to the bathroom sink,,, HA!

 

i didnt try to use wax on the bit becuse i was going to cover it with poly and didnt want paint adhesion problems,

 maybe the soap will work out on my next project.

 thanks again for the suggestion.,

 

thomp