How to Choose Hand Saws | Ask This Old House

A lesson from the master.

This the kinda guy that when he talks, you shut up!

and most important is to not waste your money on a cheaply made saw !
I know its WRONG but I always install my hack saw blades backwards = it works great for me

Slap saw

Thank you!

What kind of oil is good to put on my handsaw blade so it can cut smoothly

Sawr

I came to learn about saws, instead, I left with a vast knowledge of sars.

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Love Tom Silva, not only because he has my same last name but because he has so much knowledge on what I love, capentry😊

A little weak on the hand saw comparisons...rip and crosscut teeth are totally different.

Japanese hand saws are awesome

Why wouldn't a plumber use a pipe cutter?

A hand saw is convenient for people living, It sawed quickly anything in half.

The two sides of the pull saw/back saw are two different TPI but one is cross cut (higher tpi) and the other side is rip cut (lower tpi). When it comes to hand saws those usually come “General Purpose” from big box stores and they are actually crosscut saws. A crosscut saws can cut both crosscuts and rips much better than a rip saw can make crosscuts. When he says you want a finer tooth blade when crosscut and a courser blade for rip cuts that’s not exactly true. You want a Rip saw for Rip cuts and a Crosscut saw for crosscuts. The TPI has more to do with how fast or how clean you want the cut and more importantly the TPI has to do with how thick the board you’re cutting is. Generally you want between 3-6 teeth in the board at all times. Higher teeth doesn’t automatically mean a cleaner cut.

I "SAW" what they did there.

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Is it me or anytime I do the shoulder to arm straightness trick or try to get a strait cut at all even on metal it’s always off but on a band saw eye ball it’s dead on 😂🤣

thanks for the lesson.

What? no mention of ripping saws or cross-cutting saws?

lesson learned. the young man looks good, but chubby now.

I had never seen the jab saw or those cut-flush saws before. Pretty clever tools.

Nice Video clip! Excuse me for chiming in, I would appreciate your initial thoughts. Have you thought about - Schallingora Dexterous Programme Scheme (should be on google have a look)? It is a good one of a kind product for taking a drawing and turning it into wood without the normal expense. Ive heard some interesting things about it and my mate at very last got amazing success with it.

What brand of adjustable hacksaw are you using? The first saw that you pullout ?

Also be sure to never clamp anything down while you're sawing.

I saw those fingers.

Hack sar.

good guy kevin, he already knows this stuff but asks for our benefit

Pye tools very good & Tom also good

Hand saws are great but you'd never use them remodel a whole house unless you want to spend years remodeling.

I must be choosing wisely.
Every saw I own easily cuts my hands.

Lots of wrong, but he sounds sure of himself. 😂

And all this time I used my pull saw as a spatula for flipping burgers.

Japanese pull saws...
... the only way to go.
Hacksaw: torture instrument.

sawr

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Great vid! Good thing about using a handsaw for drywall is that you can feel a restriction like a wire or pipe. Seen to many mistakes using sawsall

I love how this show is completely unscripted. They just naturally talk to each other. The Jokes feel real because they are real.

One point I seldom see mentioned about using saws is that the push and the pull strokes require different pressures on the blade. With a western saw, one leans into the push stroke, the productive stroke so that the teeth have a firm pressure against the cut. On the pull stroke, on the non-productive stroke the pressure is lessened so that the teeth ride back gently over the cut.

Once mastered, this technique 1) helps keep saw teeth sharper longer by not rounding the tips, 2) helps keep the cut straighter, less "wonky", by reducing blade vibration and, ultimately, 3) reduces demand on sawyer's energy by making half the strokes less work.

Faster, cleaner, easier.

A sar is fun to use man!

Your index finger down the side of the handle helps to keep your shoulder/arm in line with your cut.

The Dewalt Jamb saw and the Stanley Mitre Saw they show are total crap. I've owned both. I don't like using my vintage tools out on jobs, does anybody know where we can get new saws that are as good as my old ones?

A two stroke Armstrong? :)