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Rob Cosman's Dovetail Saw: Regular Size

Rob Cosman Dovetail Saw
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Rob Cosman's Dovetail Saw: Regular Size

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After teaching thousands of students to cut dovetails by hand and dealing with the problems they had when using traditional dovetail saws, I decided to design and build a dovetail saw to solve these problems.

My Rob Cosman Dovetail Saw is the best saw for dovetails and is designed for rip sawing that leaves a smooth, ready-to-glue, finished surface.

I designed my dovetail saw with a .020" thin blade, 22 tpi starting teeth and 15 tpi sawing teeth, filed rip, with a minimal 2000th inch (0.002) set per side. The relaxed cutting angle of the small front teeth allows you to start the cut with ease - a major issue with other saws!  The teeth, formed with a diamond-saw, slice cleanly and precisely through wood fibers.  The minimal set creates a small kerf that guides the saw straight in the crosscut while the shallow 1-5/8 inch depth of blade (tooth-line to brass back) helps with stability while sawing to a line. The pistol grip handle conforms to your hand for a perfect, repeatable fit every time.

Product Details:

  • Size. Overall length (Toe to Handle tip): 15 - 1/8 inches.  Blade length (Toe to heal): 10 inches. Depth of plate under the back: 1 - 5/8 inches.

  • Weight: 22-24 ounces. 

  • Blade. Each of our dovetail saw blades is made from .020 Inch thick, spring steel.

  • Tooth Geometry.  Filed rip with a two-stage pitch. The first two inches of each dovetail saw is filed at 22 teeth per inch (TPI) and a 30 degree negative tooth rake, which allows you to easily start a cut. The rest of the blade is filed at 15 tpi and a 5 degree tooth rake allowing you to finish the cut with just a few strokes.

  • Set. Unlike most saw manufacturers who stamp out their saw teeth, leaving "dimples" in the blade, we individually cut out each of our saw teeth with a diamond saw.  This allows us to maintain a very slight set of only .002 inch (per side), since we don't introduce that "dimple" onto the blade.  This slight set produces a narrow .024 inch kerf that eliminates slop allowing the saw blade to accurately track in the saw kerf resulting in dead straight saw cuts with smooth ready-to-glue surfaces.

  • Brass Back: Rob Cosman dovetail saws have a 1/4″ thick x 7/8″ wide brass back secured to the blade with peened and flushed copper pins.  Not only does the brass look wonderful but it imparts extra weight to the saw, as compared to other saws, that provides you a better balanced saw, allows the saw to do the cutting work, and helps you "feel" perpendicular.

  • Handle. Our unique "pistol grip" handles have memory enhancing carved finger recesses for a perfect and comfortable fit. A pair of brass split nuts secures the handle to the blade and the brass back.  Our handles are made from Richlite an incredibly durable, sustainable, and versatile material made from High-grade FSC-certified paper infused with a thermosetting resin.  

  • Handle Size & Determining your Size: Our handles come in two sizes: Regular and Large.  Please refer to the picture above showing how to measure your hand and determine what size handle is correct for you size hand.

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James A.
It's a game changer!

Oh my! Having struggled for a while now to get 'clean' joints off the saw, I saved up to buy Rob's saw, shim and marking blade. What a difference! Cutting dovetails is now a pleasure. Its faster (not that that's a goal) and my 'right-first-time' joints are close to 100%. Cannot recommend this saw enough.

Rob and his team dispatched the order immediately, and I arrived in Australia 9 days later, well packed and in great condition. Oh and a nice touch from Rob calling with thanks for the purchase. Extra effort like that means I'll be back soon for some more of his tools.

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Eric Johnson
Now that’s a saw!

Granted, my saw experience is limited, but this saw is definitely my new favorite thing.

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Bill Hewett
Inspired Hybrid Blade Design

The moment I viewed Rob discuss his unique 2" of leading fine sawtooth, to assure ease of cut start, I knew this would be a good one. Along with the appreciated heft and excellent ergonomic grip. Well worth the price for its design, quality of production, and most of all dead on performance. Easily the best handsaw I have ever purchased.

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Evan

An amazing saw. Cuts smooth and fast. Very enjoyable experience.

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Mr Paul Laws
Probably The Best Saw I have Ever Purchased

Without doubt this is probably one of the most considered purchases that I have ever made because it is the most expensive hand saw that I have ever purchased, however, I need not have worried. I have several hand saws manufactured by very well known companies but any hesitation that I had about completing this purchase was unfounded the moment I lifted my new saw from its packaging. The first thing I noticed was the weight for a saw of this size and further examination revealed the thought and skill that was employed to produce a hand tool that is the result of another person's experiences, and perhaps wishes, in working with wood. The saw has some other commendable features such as the open grip and the fact that there are two sizes of grip available to suit different hand sizes. I am so pleased with this purchase I don't know whether to use it or frame it! Great value.

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