Build a Frame Saw Part 5: Wrap up
A few months ago I blogged about plans for a frame saw design that was equipped with a hack saw blade. I explained how I intended to build this saw...
‘Build A Custom Backsaw’ FAQs with Matt Cianci
Hello out there in hand tool world; it is I, your stealthy neighborhood SawWright, Matt Cianci! I have risked life and limb by hacking into the PopWood blog to further propogate my twisted...
Meet Matt Cianci – The ‘Saw Wright’
Matt Cianci’s initial forays into woodworking were as a luthier but his introduction to handsaws was born of necessity. “I had to furnish my house and I couldn’t afford to,”...
Hand Tools, Routers, Japanese Joinery and More – New on DVD
From mastering hand tools to router basics, 18th-century joinery to Japanese hand tools and joinery, you’ll find it all among the five new DVD selections now available to order at...
The Saw Painters’ Mother Ship
Attention woodworkers in and around the Great Falls, Montana, area: Have you noticed a curious lack of vintage handsaws in your flea markets and antique malls? Well there’s a reason...
Make a ‘Cutting Grid’ to Saw Particleboard & Plywood
Precision cutting with a hand-held circular saw. by Nick Engler I’d like to know who it was that decided that plywood was best sold in 4-foot by 8-foot sheets. I’ve...
On Storing Handsaws and Backsaws
Recently I’ve become somewhat obsessed by the puzzle of storing saws. During my years as a woodworker, I’ve been admonished many times for how I handle this tool. Here are...
Ron Herman: ‘Sharpen Your Handsaws’
The first time I saw Ron Herman sharpen a handsaw, I learned more about sharpening the tool in 20 minutes than I had learned in all the years I’d been...
Seven Questions with Andrew Lunn
With Andrew Lunn’s announcement that he’s leaving the sawmaking business, the No. 1 question on all our minds is: Who will have the guts to pull a prank on Jameel...
Ron Herman’s DVD on Saw Sharpening
One of my goals in this job has been to help produce a saw sharpening video that makes sense of all the dogma about this simple task. Should you set...
