Carpenters bits wanted

[Minto]

I've met so called chippies who can't actually cut straight or square with a hand saw.

I'm not a chippy but do like working with wood and I do have decent hand saws but have to admit I do need to mark right around any workpiece with a pencil to guide my hand/eye (and both legs are equal in length )

That's just good practice Bill.
My dad was a carpenter and he taught me stuff when we worked together, marking out was always done right.
I find if I'm just doing bits every now n then my cutting accuracy sucks.

[bsa-bill]

If not, you keep going round in circles

I imagine you would need to insert a "hop" every now and then depending on the discrepancy also of help would be to study the Monty Python Ministery of silly walks 

[Angus]

Are these the missing Bits

[Greybeard]

Are these the missing Bits

I reckon so Angus. 👍

[Greybeard]

Are these the missing Bits

Many thanks Angus, they are indeed the jaws from that brace. I've just been in the shed putting it together and lubricating the moving parts.
With the bits you sent me and the brace my son bought, between us we made two rustic stools.
Here is one of them:

[Greybeard]

Angus would not accept payment even for the postage of the woodworking tools so I've donated $10 to this forum.

[Angus]

Those tool must wonder what is happening, sitting in a draw for 30+ years unused and unloved and then actually making things. Great they are being used 

[Greybeard]

I had a go at fettling those bits. They are little beggers to sharpen. Because they have an outer cutting blade, you cannot get a grindstone onto the faces. I used the side of a narrow file.