tenon or dovetail?

[No skills]

Hi folks, hope you are well

I won this saw on evilbay, listed as a tenon but seems to be more like a dovetail saw - very fine teeth and quite a dinky little thing. What do you think tenon or dovetail??




Cheers

 

[MIGNAL]

Pax dovetail saw. I have one from the same stable. Decent saw, poor handle.

 

[Harbo]

Fairly easy to replace as I did on my Crown:

Rod

 

[Peter Sefton]

You can use the saw for tenons or dovetails it just depends on how thick the timber is. Is it rip or cross cut and how many TPI does it have?

Cheers Peter

 

[No skills]

Evening all, saw has approx 19-20 tpi. In my ignorance I wouldnt know how to tell a rip from a crosscut on such a saw

Yes the handle is rubbish, its broken! repaired with a screw by a former owner. A better repair or even a new handle will be on the cards one day - I have a growing pile of second hand hand tools that I've been collecting for my toolbox, when life slows down a bit I'm looking forward to working on them and with them

Out of interest, can teeth this small be sharpened?

Thanks!

 

[Peter Sefton]

At 20 TPI should be a Dovetail saw, Can be resharpened and set, how good are your eyes? or Pax may re-sharpen for you.

Cheers Peter

 

[pedder]

Out of interest, can teeth this small be sharpened?

Certainly, my first rehandled + resharpened saw had (and has) 20 tpi.
A needlefile helps, but it can be done with a 4" taper xx slim.
Made a 4" 24 tpi yesterday, that is hard to set. But filing is not that hard.

Cheers
Pedder

 

[No skills]

Thanks for the info folks!

Glad this can be resharpened (by somebody else, not me ), will be a keeper for the toolbox. Only a big rip saw to find for the 'traditional' end of my saws, got my eye on one but funds are limited watch this space

 

[Tooljack]

They can be resharpened... Now it is so difficult to find a good tenon