I know many of you are thinking of cutting dovetails by hand but may think 150 to 300 dollars for a nice old or new dovetail saw is too pricy. Well I have found this kit from Gramercy Tools and think we could do this build together as a group. The cost is under 100 dollars and the saw will be uniquely yours when your done they have a few tote designs on the net including on on the directions that is full sized. I believe this project will get you in touch with what hand tools are all about. If you have clicked the link and think you may want to be a part of the build please chime in here once we have ten people I will start the build and will be filming it. I plan on building this entire project with Hand tools and no Power tools. Not that I am a Purest but so we can show you how simple it really is to do with very few tools. 

I hope you get ten to start this with. I would love to but I may have to take a rain check for the moment.

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I am working on Gramercy to get a price break if I buy 10 kits at once for the project we will see how it goes should be a real kick

Do they tooth it for ya?

When I built mine I started with  sheet-rocking blades and  I wanted a 20 TPI saw.

The task was too much for me. I just couldn't get the hang of it so I built a machine to tooth 'em for me.

I used JB weld to mount the brass backs.

Cliff these are pre toothed and you can do it pretty easy I am trying to get them to give me a deal if i buy 10 kits at once and have them shipped to each member who wants to do the build Can I count you as the first yes of the bunch

Cliff said:

Do they tooth it for ya?

When I built mine I started with  sheet-rocking blades and  I wanted a 20 TPI saw.

The task was too much for me. I just couldn't get the hang of it so I built a machine to tooth 'em for me.

I used JB weld to mount the brass backs.

Well I've already built a couple and am eminently happy with them.

Plus, I built the toothing machine that allows me to switch lead screw in order to obtain any tooth pitch I want so long as they make  allthread  in that pitch.  So I'm not a contender in this one.

The toothing machine sonds cool do you have the plans and if so can you upload them here please i know I want to build a few saws and these kits are a good way to get your feet wet and then you can expand on it I wish you would join us in this build as it would be a good way to help the rest of us if you were doing it too

Cliff said:

Well I've already built a couple and am eminently happy with them.

Plus, I built the toothing machine that allows me to switch lead screw in order to obtain any tooth pitch I want so long as they make  allthread  in that pitch.  So I'm not a contender in this one.