When designing a brand new software, it may be dangerous to reinvent the wheel. Typically the chance pays off, nevertheless. That’s what occurred with Dave Jeske’s new joinery noticed. To create a fast, exact handsaw for smaller joinery cuts, Jeske took a skinny, razor-sharp, Japanese-style blade and tensioned it in a body manufactured from carbon fiber and aluminum, including a conventional wooden deal with. The result’s a lightweight, snug, agile noticed that cuts shortly and tracks effectively. Whereas the skinny kerf could flip off those that prefer to noticed out dovetail waste with a coping noticed (the kerf is simply too small for a coping-saw blade to show sideways on the backside), the skinny blade makes it very simple to observe a line. I used the noticed to chop dovetails in poplar, a medium-density wooden, and was very impressed with its velocity and accuracy. Tenon cuts in ash have been simply as easy, with the noticed dealing with each ripcuts and crosscuts equally effectively. Even powerful white oak was simple to chop. Should you do injury or uninteresting the blade, replacements are simply $25.
—Jeff Miller is a professional woodworker in Chicago.
Jeske Joinery Noticed
To create a fast, exact handsaw for smaller joinery cuts, Jeske took a skinny, razor-sharp, Japanese-style blade and tensioned it in a body manufactured from carbon fiber and aluminum, including a conventional wooden deal with.
Worth: $235 on the time of writing
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