How to Sharpen a Veneer Saw

Using and sharpening a veneer saw. John demonstrates the art of sharpening a veneer saw, ensuring it’s razor-sharp for cutting up veneer for my ongoing project . . . #woodworking #finewoodworking #finefurniture #handtools #finecraft | Olof Davidsson

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Filing a Gramercy Tools veneer saw is fairly straightforward. The teeth are filed square until they reach a sharp point. We clamp the saw in a modified Gramercy tools saw vise for maximum rigidity. However the thing that makes the saw perfect is the final polishing of the bevel on abrasive film. For this we use a fixture that matches the angle that we ground the saw bevel on (see previous video). #GramercyTools #woodworking #handtools, #veneering #veneersaw | Tools for Working Wood

Unlike regular saws which remove wood from a kerf, veneer saw teeth are really a series of knives that cut the wood with no waste. The teeth have no set and get filed to a three way point. The first stage is forming a bevel along the side of the blade that exactly forms a knife edge along the blade. We ship the Gramercy Tools Veneer Saw sharp and ready to use. While the filing of the teeth is done by hand our little fixture for beveling the blade gives us a consistency of bevel that doing by han

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