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What's Your Favorite Hand Saw?

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What's Your Favorite Hand Saw?

Tom Colligan, Peoria

>Or, what do you think are some of the best saws made?

For me, I sent Tom Law a saw a few years ago and he sent it back with a note that he had never seen an Acme before. The handle cleaned up so nicely that it's my favorite. {He said Acme's were more common in the Midwest as opposed to the East coast.

A month later I sent Tom another saw and he sent it back saying he had never seen a D17! {The teeth were not in the original configuration, though, which would have been both rip and crosscut.}

I could not make out the writing on either saws at the time I sent them to Tom

But what are some of the better saws made, the Londons?

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Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>I haven't paid close attention, but I have an Atkins that has had probably half its width sharpened out of it that cuts like mad.

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Steve Kubien

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Steve Kubien

>I have an Atkins 26" crosscut and a Spehar Toolsworks dovetail saw. Both handles fit my hand like a glove and cut exceptionally well. In fact, it is tough to put the dovetail saw down!

Steve Kubien

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L. Hanson

>It changes...

Lately for me it's been this little 18" Richardon Bros. saw:


Handy fella to have at the bench, just the right length for a lot of those quick cuts....

As to the better saws made - there can be a bit of debate over that. Some of my favorite user saws are common Disston #7's or D-8's. Atkins made good saws, the steel seems of quite good quality in the ones I have.

My favorite back saw, and has been for years, is a 12" unbranded "Warranted Superior" that is quite old. Then, of course - its a lot of fun to use a saw that you've made yourself:


Leif

www.norsewoodsmith.com

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Not mine, but... 

john jesseph

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dave caudill

>Man thats a tough one. I have several to say the least and I use so many of them. I have a really nice Simonds #98 backsaw filed x-cut that I really like and use a lot. I also have a nice Penn Saw Company gents dovetail saw that is really nice to use. For handsaws I am a real fan of panel saws as I'm fairly short so I don't really need a 26" blade. I have a beautiful Simonds 22" 10PPI panel saw that actually has a browned blade that is nice to use for fine work. I have a 9PPI x-cut Atkins that has been filed a number of times and has a shallow blade that I bought from Tom Law while visiting him once and I like it a lot. And I have an Atkins 7PPI x-cut I use for rough cutting when I don't want to pull out the skilsaw which is most of the time. Boy I could go on but I think I'll stop.

Dave

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dennis mcdonaugh

>My current favorite is a 20" #12 disston panel saw, 10 tpi xcut. For rougher work I like my full size keen kutter with 8 tpi xcut. Its a full 30 inches and makes short work of even wide boards.

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Tony Zaffuto

>I've got a "thing" for Disston #16 saws. Seem to have about half a dozen now. Favorite is a 11 point. Next is 6 point rip. Then a short 3 bolt 9 point crosscut (20" long?).

I like saws with a straight back and let-in handle. Subjectively feels like I have better control.

Also like my LN cross-cut and Adria dovetail.

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