Saw nest specs

I don't let mine nest; they get lazy

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

I make them perch on dowels.

Wish I could help, but my furniture making has been limited by the carpentry demands of our house.

I will comment that, were I making furniture with grunt-powered saws, I would sure have both rip and crosscut saws. It's amazing how fast a rip saw can cut with the grain.

Re: I don't let mine nest; they get lazy

john sayles

here's a response which might actually help you out:

http://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/chris-schwarz-blog/a-nest-of-saws

Re: Saw nest specs

Patrick Gibbons

I've got a saw problem. I have way more saws than I need. I have rip and crosscut for 10", 12", 14" and 16" back saws which I have configured on a lazy susan so I can easily get to them. My hand and rip saws are in a till and consist of 10 and 8 ppi and two rips at 5 1/2ppi. I have many other saws hanging around here and there which still have no home. When I go to bed at night they get busy and the next morning there's even more of them. The table saw sleeps with one eye open.

Re: Saw nest specs

Patrick Gibbons

I almost forgot, I have a 7ppi crosscut for rough cutting.

This list is not a minimalist's, but

Chuck Nickerson

I'm also not Ron Herman, whose working set runs to 300 saws.

Leaving aside bow saws and compass saws, let's break them into unbacked and backed saws.

Unbacked: rip saws at 3tpi, 5tpi, and 11 tpi. X-cut at 5 tpi, 8tpi, and 12 tpi.

In time these six saws will become 12; six with little set for well-behaved wood, six for wet DF.

Backed: rip saws at 8", 12" and 16". X-cut at 12" and 16". All with little set for well-behaved wood.

These let me do an amazing range of sawing. And I do like buying saws...