Customer Reviews

Keeping the Cutting Edge: Setting and Sharpening Hand and Power Saws

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Payson's book is an excellent guide to sharpening all types of saws, from hand to table saw blades. Also covered are old fashioned saws for cutting down trees and bucking them. Japanese and carbide tipped blades are about the only types not covered, but that does not detract from the books utility. Clearly written and illustrated, highly recommended.

This book pretty much covers sharpening handsaws soup to nuts with lots of illustrations and detail. Includes topic of rejuvinating old saws and creating your own handle.

It also has a few pages of detail on sharpening chainsaw blades as well as standard steel blades ( which is pretty dated with carbide tablesaw blades replacing steel blades )

Best book I've read on sharpening handsaws ( filing - setting - planing teeth level - etc.)

While this has some nice drawings in it which are a bit easier to see/understand compared to some of the online resources out there. I really had hoped for more, the entirety of the actual coverage of technique is about 2 paragraphs. The rest is the same technical details everyone else covers in practically the same language.

This also suffers from the same problem as the couple of the vintage works I have, the coverage of circular saw blades. I'm sure there are people out there who find this interesting, I find it gets in the way. I would like more indepth coverage of different techniques for different effects than coverage for steel circular saw blades. Different fleam, tooth angles and angle that defines the gullet all affect the wood differently and work well for various woods and situations.

You wouldn't know that if you read this.

This is a mediocre introduction to saw filing. It, however, is not all that people make it out to be.

A thin book that gives you precisely and concisly everything that you want to know about saw sharpening at home. Just add experimentation and experience and you can enjoy sharp saws all the time.

The book is only 30 pages so don't expect too much detail. Mostly illustrated with drawings - few pictures except for the info on replacing a saw handle.