Dovetail Saw Comparison
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- čas přidán 11. 09. 2024
- In an earlier video I showed the results of hot rodding a Spear and Jackson tenon saw à la Rex Krueger. How does it compare to some other popular options? Lets find out!
My hot rodding the saw video: • Hot Rodded Dovetail Saw
Rex Krueger's hot rodding how to: • Make a budget backsaw ...
Spear and Jackson saw: www.amazon.com...
Keyre Japanese pull saw: www.amazon.com...
Lee Valley - Veritas saws: www.leevalley....
I've got Lie Neilson, Veritas and 12 really nice Japanese saws. I'm a pro woodworker reproduction furniture maker, and for cutting regular dovetails, and in my opinion the Veritas works best for me with western saws. The Lie Neilson saws are a little more aggressive in their cuts. The Japanese saws make my work much easier especially cutting half blind dovetails and tenons. When switching from the western saws to the Japanese saws you have to let your mind change gears on how to hold and cut with the saws. I use all of my saws on a regular basis, but my go to dovetail saws are a 7 inch Suizan Ryoba saw and a 6 inch Dozuki saw. I'm building a reproduction Chippendale chest of drawers now for a client made with mostly dovetail joinery including the case work and drawers. I've used only Japanese saws on it so far. Thanks for the excellent video. It should help beginners to understand handsaws a lot. Keep up the good work.
I have the Veritas saw. For the $ it is a really good saw. I had so much trouble cutting straight with the Japanese style pull saws I decided to try the Veritas. I found with very little effort and learning Technique from Paul Sellers I was able to cut so much better in no time. The saw feels really well balanced and easy to grip lightly so it just guides itself. One tip I found really useful was to start the cut and then drop the heel of the saw down to follow the line to depth and then finish the back side of the cut produced much better results than just cutting keeping the saw parallel to the ground.
Lol. Nice follow-up to seeing the dovetail you used for the moxen vice.
I use a gent saw for dovetails and love it. I definitely want to pick up a veritas for my crosscut work. Thanks.
Good video thanks for posting .. this reminds me that I need to get a better small saw.
You might wanna try a couple of pull backs using the keel of the saw to establish the cut. Using the keel ( the back end of the blade ) gives the teeth with the unworn down set the chance to start the cut, before you go ahead and try to shove the thing into your work!
I like that Veritas.
The japanese saw used in this video is a crosscut saw, not a rip cut like others.
I included it because Dozuki are frequently recommended for use as dovetail saws. The description for this one on Amazon doesn't say "Dozuki" anywhere, but it does say "dovetail saw". Anyway, the cut quality is good enough rip sawing even though the teeth are filed for cross cut.
@@NotanExpert-Woodworking I just thought that this moment is worth mentioning, so i commented on it.
Also, I've noticed that often on ebay/amazon any saw dedicated to a finer work is called "dovetail saw" because there are many types of dovetails and dovetail saws are prestigious.
Funny moment: Rob Cosman (canadian woodworker) was asked what he thinks about saw manufacturers that make their dovetail saws not only in rip cut, but also in crosscut; he said that crosscut dovetail saws are nonsens in his opinion, or something like that, and guess what, a couple days ago, when he built a dovetailed niche under the workbench out of 12mm baltic birch plywood, he said that in this case, dovetails in plywood would be better to cut with a crosscut saw (he's right)!
P. S. I've noticed many nice western saws in the video, so I think You are not very interested in japanese saws, but in case if You will be interested, try the 240mm (9") or 270mm (11") ryoba by Gyokucho - it's a disposable blade saw with rip cut teeth on one side and cross cut teeth on other side, and they are pretty good, especially for someone that doesn't have access to some nice western saws.
Sorry for bad english.