I remember my Dad grinding an excellent kitchen knife from a power hacksaw blade. He left the remains of the teeth on the sharp edge [pointing forward in the "hacksaw" direction] … it was razor sharp, and excellent for slicing tomatoes.

MichaelG.

I made a couple of gasket scrapers by grinding one end square then bevel like a wood chisel then sharpen it , Once sharp I hone the flat side so there is no burr and this takes the edge off a little so it does not chop onto the gasket face,

We used to make special knives for trimming the lead tape we used to mask jobs when I was in the Electroplating Industry.The most common was to grind at 45deg then sharpen so it was like a large craft knife , others were just like a normal knife but because they flex they were used to strip off the plastic wrap we used to mask large items .
We just wrapped the end up with insulation tape (also used as masking tape ) to make a handle but these days I use heat shrink tube .

Ian

Apparently, they’re quite good for grinding up and making lock picks.

Allegedly. …

W.

i save all mine.

i grind off the teeth etc and use as loco leaf springs. they are more flexible than spring steel and work perfectly as leaf springs. never use tufnol strip, just eclipse blades! in fact on one of my locos with outside frames and springs above the running boards (an old GWR design) you can just see 'eclipse' in the paint if you look very closely!

cheers,

julian

I have used worn hacksaw blades as parting tools successfully in the past

also used them for packing for the toolpost not needed now

as I have QCTP

Best Wishes Martin

Some little chisels for carving the rose in a lute soundboard and a thin parting tool holder, I think this was a Len Mason design – also good for piston ring grooves.

cheers,

Rod

I made a hacksaw sharpening jig by clamping the hacksaw blade in a slit cut in a piece of gas pipe which had a lathe centre support on one end. This assembly was mounted in the lathe with the screw pitch set to the teeth pitch. A dremel was mounted on the topslide with a thin grinding disc and the teeth were sharpened by powering the dremel while the sawblade was rotated at the screw pitch. It worked really well, the saw blades were nice and sharp , really good for brass.

Alan