Mitsukawa saws - Where to buy?

[luis.martins]

Hello everyone,

I've been using machine made Japanese saws for a couple years now and would like to step up to handmade ones. I've been looking at a Mitsukawa dozuki to cut fine dovetails on Hida Tool's website.

Do you guys know where I can buy this or a similar quality saw in the UK or anywhere in Europe? Buying from the US will mean a high shipping cost and customs taxes which I'd like to avoid if possible.

Take care,
Luis

 

[jasonB]

http://www.fine-tools.com/mitsukawa.html

Jason

 

[luis.martins]

Hi Jason,

Thank you for your reply!

This is my dream saw, but for the moment it's over my budget.
I'm looking for something up to half of that price - a step up from the replacement blade saws but not hand-forged.

Take care,
Luis

 

[thejhw]

Hi Luis.
I can tell you that Matthew at Workshop Heaven http://workshopheaven.com/cgi-bin/cp-ap ... =HOME:Saws

carries Japanese saws, is very enthusiastic about them and will talk for ages about them.
Why don't you email him and see if he can help you with what you want?

HTH
Jim

 

[bugbear]

Hello everyone,

I've been using machine made Japanese saws for a couple years now and would like to step up to handmade ones. I've been looking at a Mitsukawa dozuki to cut fine dovetails on Hida Tool's website.

Do you guys know where I can buy this or a similar quality saw in the UK or anywhere in Europe? Buying from the US will mean a high shipping cost and customs taxes which I'd like to avoid if possible.

Take care,
Luis

I think most of the handtool specialists in the UK stock "various" japanese saws.

Try looking around here:
http://www.cornishworkshop.co.uk/tooldealers.html

BugBear