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My long journey around the world of saws<\/strong> has come full circle.<\/p>\n In my youth<\/a>,\u00a0I enjoyed basic woodworking with low quality, dull handsaws thinking power tools must be better. I wondered if any serious work was done with hand tools, and, at 15 years of age, bought a jigsaw from Sears. Later, while learning more skills, especially joinery, I was experimenting and struggling<\/strong> with poor quality Western saws, especially backsaws, and inexpensive Japanese saws.<\/p>\n I recognized that the Japanese woodworking culture, unlike most of the West\u2019s, had retained without interruption its support of the production of high quality woodworking hand tools by small-scale makers<\/strong>. My choices in the 1980s consisted mostly of Japanese saws which I had learned to use well and which intrigued me, vintage Western saws which I did not feel ready to research and rehabilitate, some European middling quality saws, and Tage Frid\u2019s good old Danish bow saw<\/a>.<\/p>\n Look at what is available today. We are so fortunate!<\/strong> There are Wenzloff<\/a>, Lie-Nielsen<\/a>, Gramercy<\/a>, Bad Axe<\/a>, Adria<\/a>, Eccentric<\/a>, Medallion<\/a>, and others making saws that are surely at least the equals of historical Western saws. Furthermore, there are now many sources for wonderful quality handmade Japanese tools<\/strong> while technology has given us remarkable quality machine-made Japanese saws<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Ironically, it was the recent addition of a good old American Disston<\/strong> that was the last step\u00a0to reach a feeling of ease with my eclectic bunch of saws.<\/p>\n My aim in these posts has been to tell you why<\/em> I use what I do<\/strong> in the hope that this can help you find your<\/em> own way<\/strong> around the world of saws. I will certainly continue to explore, and I hope your saw explorations are enjoyable and productive.<\/p>\n Happy sawing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My long journey around the world of saws has come full circle. In my youth,\u00a0I enjoyed basic woodworking with low quality, dull handsaws thinking power tools must be better. I wondered if any serious work was done with hand tools, and, at 15 years of age, bought a jigsaw from Sears. Later, while learning more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tools-and-shop","tag-east-meets-west-my-saws-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=878"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2286,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions\/2286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rpwoodwork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}