I had an old Disston back saw lying around waiting for me to fix the handle. There was the obvious piece missing from the bottom, the broken top horn, and a large chip out of the bottom horn.P1010003.jpg. The other day I found an Atkins back saw for $3.50 at a gargage sale with only a shred of a handle left but it got me thinking, there might be enough here to make one handle. Here is my attempt to document what was a fun restoration of a very sad saw. Here are the two saws side by sideP1010001.jpg the parts look like they may fit, so its over to the table saw for some finesse cuts on a sliding miter boardP1010007.jpg. Here are the parts glued upP1010013.jpg. From here there was a series of filing, sanding, and the top horn repair as well as the bottom chip repair. Additionally, I cut bit too much off and had to let in a small wedge as you can see on the bottom handle hoop. I went through various finishing stages before I ended up with thisP101.jpg. You can see there were two different colors of apple so I had to darken the wood on the top of the cut line to blend it with the lower darker apple. I also chose to leave all of the dings and stains on the handle so they would make the repair blend a bit better. In all, there were 4 repairs to the handle, top horn, bottom piece, messed up cut on the bottom piece, and the bottom horn. P101006.jpgP101007.jpg.Here is the final product, sharpened and ready for another 100 years. P1010010.jpg