Just read your review, at £17:00 it didn't break the bank and will give very good service, glad you are pleased with it, I suppose we can see many many dovetails coming now.
With some saws now, you can specify whether to have a rip tooth pattern or crosscut. I've only ever used saws with crosscut, which I find to be quite slow at times. Rip teeth are supposed to speed things up a bit!
Mike, by the way, I was at Yandles on Saturday watching this guy cutting dovetails with a Japanese saw - much to my surprise, he removed the waste with a coping saw!! It didn't really click at the time so, I don't know where he gets them. But, I'm assuming there are extra fine/think kerf coping saws blades available somewhere...
Oh well, you've got your Pax saw now anyway, so, I guess it doesn't really matter. Good choice, by the way. I bought one of their flush-trimming saws a few weeks ago and that looks excellent (I haven't needed to use it yet!).
he may have cut an entire new cut down from the top with the coping saw, possibly. My coping saw wasn't even close to fitting in the Japanese saw kerf.
Derek,
funnily enough, I had just done a whole lot of the smallest possible dovetails (5mm thick wood) with my old tenon saw......then ebonised it all and they completely disappeared! Waste of effort really....
The first job my Gent's saw did was to cut the legs off my bedside tables. I don't think I have ever hashed up any furniture as much as these!!!
Don't get me wrong Derek....the construction was absolutely spot on!! You know how normally there is the odd little thing here and there that you know isn't perfect (others would probably not notice)? Not this time......That made it doubly annoying that I had got the design so badly wrong!!
Now I've got 8 very short walnut legs......I'll have to make 2 very short tables some time!
First I was very pleased with it, then some of the joints started to come apart, I discovered that my glue had been frosted, nearly a gallon of it. I re-did some of the table-top, but, of course, it didn't go back the way it was, so filler, it looked awful, I left it and nearly broke it up.
Anyhow, last week I took the top off, re-cut all the mitre joints, re-assembled it all, made new drawers, the others were by then, a different size,
Now it's all back together, today I veneered the top, tomorrow a little, wide,contrast banding around the edge for effect and then we can put a finish on it. I hope for the last time.
I was surprised too, but it was a bit porridgey so I dumped it, I reckon I must have left it open at some time on an extremely cold night. Anyhow practise makes perfect, this has not been very difficult to do as I re-used most of the components, I did put it off for quite a while though,thanks for your interest.
Now I've got 8 very short walnut legs......I'll have to make 2 very short tables some time!
Mike, do you have a stool in your workshop? I admit the walnut's a bit too nice for 'workshop furniture' but, unless you get in to turning, what else are you honestly going to do with them?
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