Bad Axe Tool Works D-8 Handsaws
by James McConnell web page sixteen Making a great handsaw is troublesome; making nice handsaws at a manufacturing degree appears darned close to unimaginable. The brand new D-8 handsaws (based mostly on the Disston D8 and Simonds No. seventy two) from Bad Axe Tool Works by some means invoke all the greatest issues concerning the golden age of sawmaking in America whereas setting a brand new benchmark for high quality. Bad Axe gives the D-8 in 24″ and 26″ plate sizes in devoted rip or crosscut configurations, and I had the pleasure of testing a 26″ ripsaw (5.5 ppi) and a 24″ crosscut noticed (9 ppi). I put them straight to work breaking down 50′ of 6/four Southern yellow pine and the ripsaw powered by means of 10′-lengthy cuts with ease whereas the crosscut carried out with precision and velocity. Each tracked impeccably in each hard and softwoods. These saws are taper floor, which suggests there"s much less metallic within the plate towar...