my mini dozuki (japanese dovetail saw) kept tearing its cardboard sheath, so today I made a simple l
my mini dozuki (japanese dovetail saw) kept tearing its cardboard sheath, so today I made a simple leather sheath by riveting a rectangular leather scrap.I love this handsaw! japanese saws cut on the pull stroke (unlike most western saws which cut on the push stroke), which means the blade can be made much narrower and cut a thinner kerf. so far I’ve just been using it as a very pleasing pocket hacksaw to cut random shims and scrap during personal projects, but it’s supposed to be really nice for making precision angled cuts like dovetails.note to self / #oops: the tie closure I made is suboptimal because it allows the sheath to pull forward a little. were I to make this again, I would install a strap with a snap that looped around the heel of the saw to secure the sheath snugly against the blade profile.two reasons I didn’t do this to start with:I didn’t want to have metal rubbing on metal, meaning I would have had to do extra work to cover the snap backing from the inside of the sheath.I didn’t have any snaps that stylistically matched these rivets :p -- source link
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