MY63 wrote:I find the Japanese saws easier on my hands than European saws
My budget is £100 my first thought was to buy one handmade Ryoba saw and maybe a replacement blade for my current saw.
The handmade saws are described as "intollerant of abuse" the next option is to buy a set of four for £100 with replacable blades.
Thoughts and advice appreciated
I've been using the Gyokucho saws from WH for some years now and I find them superb. Previously I'd used a couple of offerings from Ax which weren't even close; they cut quite well but I found that teeth snapped off far too easily...and I was being careful!
A couple of days ago, I rang up Matt at WH and discussed the merits or otherwise of the hand made Japanese saws that he's offering on the website. The standard replaceable blade saws are excellent but are the base line or starting point for these tools; he mentioned that a hand made saw is a quantum leap up, but they won't suffer fools and are 'intolerant of abuse'.
After the natter with Matt, I decided to gird loins and take a punt so a couple of days later....
- (172.35 KiB)
....these beauties were delivered, one of which is the
Gyokucho TS130, the uber-sexy
dovetail saw with a blade that's only 0.15mm thick
I haven't yet had a chance to use them, but the two larger saws weren't supplied with blade guards, so I need to get hold of some slide binders from WHS. Initial thought's are that the teeth on the hand made rip are
much finer than the saw it
replaced but if peeps are interested I'll post a review later on - Rob
I no longer work for Axminster Tools & Machinery.