BAD AXE - Premium quality USA made luthiers saw which doubles as a down-scale tenon / carcase saw.  

Design Rationale:

• Bottom line up front: We designed an open-handled, thin (.015) plate 10" long saw with just enough plate below the back to accommodate a depth stop for making delicate fret-wire cuts on a guitar neck. This is also an outstanding carcase saw for thin stock requirements where finesse in cut is paramount.
• Precise, hammer-set toothline with a combined set that delivers a .022-.023 kerf, which promotes a compressive fret-wire fit.
• Ultra-High-Molecular-Weight (UHMW) Polyethylene Depth Stop with knurled thumbscrews. The high lubricity of this particular synthetic provides a friction-free depth stop for your work that won't mar your exotic woods.
• Traditional 1876 Wheeler-pattern open handle, available in standard quartersawn white oak, or optional QS cherry, QS walnut, &QS hard maple. Three sizes--small, regular and large--will fit virtually any hand.
• Traditional folded sawback finished in black-oxided carbon steel, or titanium nitrided steel. Read more about this critical component for any backsaw, and why Bad Axe promotes the enduring traditional folded sawback over commonplace static-backed saws that disallow retensioning the toothline with heavy use.
• Handle Fasteners available in standard brass or optional black-oxided, niter-blued carbon steel.
• Swedish spring steel .015 sawplate, hammer-set & sharpened at 16 ppi x-cut.

Supplied with a removable depth stop which provides for the accurate cutting of slots for fret wires.

We list, and by default will supply,  the Standard Recommended saw build although you can tailor some of your your heirloom tool components - see below.

If you wish to specify variants please email your preferred combination and we will return an itemised quote for your approval. 

Note supply delays may currently apply due to demand and delays in manufacture caused by COVID. 

When you are happy to commit we will secure a deposit from you and either supply from stock-on-hand or secure your place in the supply queue.

Stiffener Variants
Black Oxide Steel - Standard
Titanium Nitride Plated Steel - add $105
Handle Species Variants
Mission White Oak - Standard
Philadelphia Cherry - add $26
Wisconsin Black Walnut - add $35
Pennsylvania Hard Maple - add $50
Hand Size Variants - see below for calculator
Small - 81~89mm
Regular - 91~99mm
Large - 101~109mm
Fasteners Variants
Brass slotted nuts - Standard
Black Oxided/Gun Blued Steel Slotted Nuts - add $28
Gunsmith Nitre-Blued Steel Slotted Nuts - add $39.00

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Please use this calculator to determine your hand size

Conversion: Small up to 95mm, Regular 95~98mm, Large 98mm and larger

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USEFUL CONVERSION TABLES

For a detailed and and knowledgeable description of Bad Axe Dovetail saws see HERE

For a comparative review of 7 makes of premium dovetail saws see HERE  (due soon)

Courtesy of Fine Wood Working Magazine Nov/Dec 2017 -