Which Razor saw?

Hi All...

Appreciate that this is steering towards woodwork (?) but what do you recommend?

I am after a GOOD set, nice and precision for Balsa, soft and the odd bit of hardwood.

I look at it as an investment.

Steve

I bought a set with 2 saw blades and a handle for £8.50, I think Exacto. These are very fine blades so would be suitable for balsa.

Clive

Ive always used the X-acto (no E and a hyphen) and had no problems with them. Though for larger bits look at some of the fine toothed Japanese saws these have blades down to around 0.4mm think and the way the teeth are cut there is minimal set to make the kerf wider than the actual blade.

J

Edited By JasonB on 20/07/2014 12:39:19

Steve,

It's probably bigger than you had in mind, but I would highly recommend the Topman Z saw, and also the Sawing Guide that they sell.

It's a modern version of the classic Japanese pull-saw, and the performance is amazing.

They may do something smaller, I haven't checked.

MichaelG.

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Edit: Topman website unfortunately has little technical content.

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 20/07/2014 12:16:11

Update: Here is the dedicated Z-Saw website

... definitely worth a look.

MichaelG.

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P.S. For the sake of TradeMark pedantry, I should have written TopMan.

Yes the 265 is probably a bit big, I have two of them

For fine work then one of teh Dozuki type saws which have a back to them like a tennon saw would be better and if you get one with the "woodpecker" tip you can also start a cut mid panel, something like this would do

I've got this one, well pleased with it. Axminster also sell the Japanese ones as well.

http://www.axminster.co.uk/victor-razor-saw

Steve,

If you need to be really precise for small work I bought some of these blades a while back from Hannants. They'd be ok for balsa.

**LINK**

Ed.

Ed,

That's clever stuff !!

... am I right in assuming that there is no "set" on the teeth ?

MichaelG.