In a few easy steps, you can discover how you can maintain a Japanese hand saw to keep in the best condition.
Filer Guide for Hand-Saws: Sharpening a saw can be one of the most "difficult" tasks for a woodworker. I built this guide for sharpening hand-saw teeth at the required relief angles, for both rip saw and crosscut saw. Inspired in an old tool from 1987 hard to achieve (at lea…
To sharpen hand saws I follow several steps, including jointing the saw teeth (leveling) filing the teeth (shaping), setting the teeth (bending), and stoning the teeth (Deburring).
Craft the perfect woodworking project with our guide on hand saws! Discover the top 5 types of hand saws, including dovetail, crosscut, dozuki, coping, and panel saws. Learn how to choose the right sa
Which hand saw for wood working do you need for getting started? Joshua talks about the best woodworking hand saw, back saw, dovetail saw, and more.
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Project #2316 • Skill Level: Intermediate • Time: 4 Days • Cost: $75 Chopping vs. coping dovetail waste can be a fiercely debated topic, but I find coping better fits my workflow. Debate aside…
Western and Japanese hand saws have different purposes. Learn about their features and how you may combine them to improve your skills.
Following is the list of 29 different types of saws used in the workshop. Explained with pictures and download the PDF file of this article.
Ready to dive into woodworking but unsure what tools you'll need? Let's embark on a journey to uncover the essential hand tools that will turn a novice into a master craftsman! Every woodworking expert was
Craft the perfect woodworking project with our guide on hand saws! Discover the top 5 types of hand saws, including dovetail, crosscut, dozuki, coping, and panel saws. Learn how to choose the right sa
Few woodworkers will have the same workshop tool wish lists, whether they are starting from scratch or improving an existing one. A table saw, band saw, or radial arm saw is usually the first priority, followed by equipment to dress up timber, such as a planer, lathe, and drill press. From there, the equipment you'll
Which hand saw for wood working do you need for getting started? Joshua talks about the best woodworking hand saw, back saw, dovetail saw, and more.
Western and Japanese hand saws have different purposes. Learn about their features and how you may combine them to improve your skills.
Craft the perfect woodworking project with our guide on hand saws! Discover the top 5 types of hand saws, including dovetail, crosscut, dozuki, coping, and panel saws. Learn how to choose the right sa
This classic hand saw has 11 teeth per inch to cut smoothly into most types of lumber. The hand saw has comfortable hardwood handle for easy operation and comes with its own protective sheath for safe storage.
Project #2405 • Skill Level: Intermediate • Time: 3 Days • Cost: $150 There is a debate among hand tool woodworkers about saw tills. Officially, there haven't been any historical accounts of a saw…
DO NOT THROW AWAY OLD SAWS ON WOOD I Have a Great Idea: So don’t be in a hurry to throw away old unnecessary tools because you can make useful #DIY out of them.
Handsaws are precise tools that belong in any modern shop. The fact that handsaws may be used for tasks that other tools cannot be used for makes them crucial for the majority of woodworkers, whether they are experts or amateurs.
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I've been accumulating hand saws over recent months as part of my transition from a fully power tool woodworker to a hybrid woodworker. What that means is that I'm starting to use hand tools more and more in my work. I don't ever plan to change over to an exclusive reliance on hand tools. Power tools are useful and have a good purpose, especially when processing large amounts of wood for larger projects. Still, I like working by hand and am building up my skills in this area. Hence the hand saws. I now have three crosscut saws--two in serious need of sharpening, a skill I am working on but have not yet mastered--two rip saws of differing tooth configurations and several smaller saws. Those saws are a Bad Axe Toolworks 18" tenon saw with a hybrid tooth filing, an Adria Toolworks carcase saw, a Lie-Nielsen dovetail saw and a Veritas crosscut saw. Each saw has its own purpose, so I feel justified in having them all. I'm hoping they will meet all my hand saw needs for a very long time. The problem with having this many saws is where to store them. That led me to design and build a saw till so I could hang them in a small space on my shop wall. As the photo shows, this turned out to be a simple affair, essentially three rectangles of birch plywood, two of which are attached at right angles to the back board and supported by a cleat on their undersides. I sawed grooves in the horizontal pieces for the saw blades to fit into. As you can see, the saws are held in place by their handles and a bit of gravity. I screwed the whole affair into the concrete wall of my basement shop, where it hangs between some shelves and a large sheet of pegboard. This simple design works well and was easy to execute. But improvements might be possible for others who wish to build something similar. I might have designed it so the handles are at the bottom and the blades facing upward, for example, but somehow the simplicity of this arrangement appealed to me more. Another improvement would be to angle the top horizontal piece so it slopes upward toward the front. This would have alleviated my fear that the saws will--given vibrations in the shop--gradually work their way forward in their slots and eventually fall to the floor. My solution to that is periodically to push them backward in their slots to rectify any forward creep. An angled board would have rid me of this concern. Perhaps some day I'll make another saw till that incorporates improvements. Until I'm caught up on all my projects--and that is likely to be a very long time indeed!--I'll use the one I have and be glad it is there to project my saws and keep them handy for use. If you decide to build one of your own, leave a comment and tell me what you did. I just might want to borrow from your ideas if and when I rebuild my own. Norm
