EvilDeadChainsaws.com - Pt2 The Early Days 2006-2008

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Here is part 2 of my EvilDeadChainsaws photo retrospective, ranging roughly from July 2006 to March 2008, when I closed EDC for the first time. I made fifteen chainsaws over this period, although my photos & record-keeping wasn't as comprehensive as it was when I ran EDC for the second time from 2013-2015.

You have photos of; The photo backgrounds for the Workshed & Cabin saws, making the first two Evil Dead The Musical (New York) saws, along with a third later saw, then the first Medieval saw, the one and only working Medieval saw I made first time round, two EDTM Toronto saws, a perspex case, two EDTM South Korea saws, and finally closing EDC and dismantling my Workshed display into a smaller free-standing unit.

The way I made the Musical's saws evolved with each one I made and the feedback I got, as they took far more abuse than anything sold to collectors. As I recall, one of the two first saws I sent to EDTM in New York, they dropped one the first day and the black side handle snapped off. After that, I added an M12 threaded rod core to the bottom of each side handle, which was fixed to a metal plate inside the saw to make it stronger. I started making the mufflers solid resin rather than hollow fibreglass to make those stronger. I took a good few days making lightweight aluminium guide bars for the EDTM Toronto saws, and they immediately removed them and replaced them with plastic cut-outs! The first two chainsaws I sent to EDTM in Korea were sent in a cardboard box, and they got trashed, I mean really totally smashed in transit, so I sent two more and used wooden crates to send all my saws after that, and later started using a more expensive freighting company rather than Parcelforce. The first and only working saw I made back then turned into a nightmare when I made my own battery pack to fit into the tight space in the saw I had allocated for it, and when it heated up; it would only work sometimes. At the last minute I had to modify it to use an external standard off-the-shelf battery pack with wires up the wearers arm. I also know one of my collector's saws was smashed during an 'argument', which I found out when it was replaced when they bought a second one years later.

This first round of EDC gave me a long (very long) list of real-world feedback & criticism, and gave me the information I needed to make a much better job of saw construction second time round in 2013. See part 3 coming shortly!