Dovetails with a hack saw

[devonwoody]

Thanks for that, now where did my junior hacksaw go, its dropped off its perch the last time I looked for it.

 

[Jacob]

In fact the metal cutting blade does a very clean rip cut. I bet the 14 tpi wood cutting won't be so good for DTs but will be better for cross cutting.

 

[Mikey R]

Late to the party as ever, sorry guys - if you use a rip cut wood cutting hacksaw blade and grind it so that its less deep, arent you basically using a coping saw?

 

[bugbear]

In fact the metal cutting blade does a very clean rip cut. I bet the 14 tpi wood cutting won't be so good for DTs but will be better for cross cutting.

Predicting the cutting performance without a trial would depend on the rake, fleam and set. Do you know what they are?

BugBear

 

[Jacob]

Late to the party as ever, sorry guys - if you use a rip cut wood cutting hacksaw blade and grind it so that its less deep, arent you basically using a coping saw?

Probably yes. Why would you want to do that?

 

[bridger]

so a hacksaw is a metal cutting bowsaw. if we made a deep enough hacksaw frame stout enough to take a lot of tension, ground off most of the set on a hacksaw blade and mounted it tight, how would that cut?

 

[Jacob]

so a hacksaw is a metal cutting bowsaw. if we made a deep enough hacksaw frame stout enough to take a lot of tension, ground off most of the set on a hacksaw blade and mounted it tight, how would that cut?

Like a very fine tooth coping saw or fret saw? What point are you trying to make?
Junior hacksaw blades seem to be 32tpi with no fleam, which is why they can do a decent (small) DT cut. No need to modify them.

 

[bridger]

so a hacksaw is a metal cutting bowsaw. if we made a deep enough hacksaw frame stout enough to take a lot of tension, ground off most of the set on a hacksaw blade and mounted it tight, how would that cut?

Like a very fine tooth coping saw or fret saw? What point are you trying to make?
Junior hacksaw blades seem to be 32tpi with no fleam, which is why they can do a decent (small) DT cut. No need to modify them.

a coping saw with a wide blade. grinding off the set should reduce the squirrily steering. I guess the point is that a dovetail frame saw isn't a completely crazy idea, and a hacksaw isn't an impossible place to start. aside from having the wrong blade and the wrong frame, that is.

 

[Jacob]

so a hacksaw is a metal cutting bowsaw. if we made a deep enough hacksaw frame stout enough to take a lot of tension, ground off most of the set on a hacksaw blade and mounted it tight, how would that cut?

Like a very fine tooth coping saw or fret saw? What point are you trying to make?
Junior hacksaw blades seem to be 32tpi with no fleam, which is why they can do a decent (small) DT cut. No need to modify them.

a coping saw with a wide blade. grinding off the set should reduce the squirrily steering. I guess the point is that a dovetail frame saw isn't a completely crazy idea, and a hacksaw isn't an impossible place to start. aside from having the wrong blade and the wrong frame, that is.

Well yes - go for it!