Dovetail Saw

Beautiful. Love the zebrawood.

Very nice job. I especially admire your ability to do this project from complete scratch.

-- John C. -- "Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth." George Washington

Very nice, although one critique. The grain direction in the handle may have been a poor choice, although I have no idea how well zebra wood makes for a handle.

Gasp, I have similar work in progress! Though I had trouble with my metal folding jig, one of the hinges wasn’t strong enough to get the pressure from folding 0,8 mm thick brass plate.

Anyway. Your saw looks as good as I hope mine to be once it’s done! By the way, did you check out Norse Woodsmith's backsaw building page ? Lots of very useful info about cutting the teeth properly in there :)

-- Thomas - There is no such thing as a problem, there only are solutions.

I looked at the project and thought ‘nice…he’s made a new handle’. Nope…that cat made an entire saw! Nice work Ben. You probably thought you’d never finish the teeth. I’m with you, I like the blue.
My high school science teacher was innovative like you and has probably made the most lasting impact on my life. It was the 70’s and a private school, but we had snakes in his classroom in plywood boxes with glass fronts. The poisonous ones had a lock on the box. We received extra credit for bringing him things to feed the snakes and we often got to stay after school to watch the snakes eat. We received even more of credit if we brought him a snake! The big cottonmouth I caught was a real help to this C student! The highlight of the annual Halloween carnival was the snake show featuring the 2 king cobras as the stars. We had to YEARLY do butterfly collections and at 53 years old, I can still identify many butterflies as they fly by and often tell if they’re male or female. Decades later, my take away is he left me with an understanding that there is a LOT out there in the world and a thirst to discover it! From England, his name was Reginald Wallingston Titmus III.
Kudos to the innovative teachers!!!!

-- Tim Harrelson

Love it Ben !
Great piece of scratch built work and nice end product !

-- Glen, Vernon B.C. Canada

Well done

That will be a pleasure to use.

Jamie

-- Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I admire your tenacity to file all those teeth. I’ve considered just sharpening a saw like that but not taken the plunge. Not sure I want to ever ‘tool up’ to that area of woodworking. I went back specifically to look at the grain direction before I read the comments. It looks spot on to me but I’m no expert.

Very well done. TPI? Rip/Crosscut?

-- Backer boards, stop blocks, build oversized, and never buy a hand plane--

I’m sure that this tool will hang in a place of prominence on your tool wall.
I can only imagine the pride you have for that saw.
Give yourself two gold stars for that one. :)

-- Grumpy old guy, and lookin' good Doin' it.

nice saw and choice of wood!

well done :-)

if you find your set on the teeth is too much you can lay the saw flat on a table
with the brassback outside the edge of the table and take a few strokes on each side
of the blade with a sharpeninstone on the teeth

Dennis

Beautiful work. I admire what you have done and I to congratulate you on being inspirational to your students. My science and shop teachers were really inspiring to me as was my scout leader back in the early 60’s.

-- Dr. Ken, Florida - Durch harte arbeit werden Träume wahr.

Did someone mention first? I highly doubt it! This is a work of a skilled craftsman.

Astounding! More skill than I would ever hope to master.

-- ok, is it cut once measure twice, cut twice measure once???? I know....I'll just keep cutting until it's long enough.

Nice work. Definately inspirational. Thanks for link. I’ve got some old saws that are destined for repurpose.

-- Doug - Make an effort to live by the slogan "We try harder"