Let’s demystify saw sharpening! A 5 day course
28th October – 1st November, 2024 | £1,350.00
Master the skills required to restore your vintage saw collection with confidence, and build your own Bad Axe with Mark Harrell, founder of Bad Axe Tool Works.
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In Master saw sharpening & maintenance skills and build your own bad axe with Mark Harrell, this five-day course enables tool resellers, entrepreneurs and hobbyist woodworkers at large to maintain, retension, retooth, hammer-set, and sharpen-to-joint hand, panel, frame and backsaws across a variety of pitches. The course culminates in a graduation exercise in which the student builds his/her own Bad Axe Improved #9 Tenon Saw (included in course tuition).*
Instructional methods centre on historical techniques and best practices employed by craftsmen from over three centuries of western traditional saw making.
During this class, you will learn how to:
- Assess, evaluate, restore and maintain an array of vintage backsaws and handsaws.
- Build your own inexpensive saw sharpening vise and maintenance system.
- Hammer-set and sharpen-to-joint carcase, tenon, panel and handsaws across a variety of pitches.
- Re-shape an asymmetrical toothline with differently-sized files to achieve consistent rake, bevel and symmetry.
- Maximize a saw’s performance based on a thorough understanding of how plate gauge, pitch and sawtooth geometry work together for a desired cutting effect in both softwoods and hardwoods.
- Mark highly recommends you bring your favorite vintage handsaw/panel saw and vintage backsaw to the course for tuning up under his oversight
- Graduation exercise: build your own Bad Axe Improved #9 Tenon Saw 14” (35.5 cm) Precision Carcase Saw.
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*Note: all files, vices and sharpening equipment will be provided on-site.
Students may keep the files and 2 training plates provided by the instructor to take home for continued practice.
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