With the free shipping weekend and all I've decided to pick up another LV saw. I've got the dovetail saw now and love it. It fits my hand and just feels "right" to use. About 80% of my handsaw work is making dovetails and the rest is a random assortment of whatever I feel like piddling with. I've been using a coping saw, cheap Japanese double sided saw or an old miter box saw to cut the outside waste off dovetails and do the other cross cut tasks. None of them obviously are a pleasure to use or do the best job. In comes the veritas saw. My question is what is the general opinion on which is more useful to have around, the smaller crosscut dovetail size saw or the slightly larger crosscut carcass saw?
Here are my thoughts
1. Dovetail:
- Smaller and easier to control
- Matches the saw I already have (yes I know, leave it alone that is a pro to me )
2. Carcass saw
- Larger to handle bigger tasks that might encourage more hand saw work to be done.
Is the larger (relative I know) saw going to be significantly hard to use for trimming waste from dovetails?
Thanks,
Derek