The Mote in God’s Eye by Larry Niven is exactly what you want

Holy clamp

Lizzie is adorable. She needs one of those window suction cup beds

He’s looking very happy! You take good care of your cat!

After researching the medallion on the handle I found out it’s a 1940s Disston D8 26" 10TPI crosscut saw

I tried to follow the process from this video https://youtu.be/cN8yMAXp54s for the most part. Haven’t done any sharpening on it yet. Still need the tools.