Welcome to a line of hand and panel saws long in demand from those who frequent the hand tool world! The Bad Axe Team introduces our new Bad Axe D8, aka, the 'Henry Disston,' so named in honor of the greatest Sawmaker of them all. We're proud of what has taken us several years to get the taper-grind right without compromising the metal during the grinding process such that it results in a floppy, ill-tempered plate prone to kinking, or a poorly executed handle ranging well-outside the main body of the plate. For such a simple tool, there's quite a bit going on with the entire cocktail of design considerations: a deeply embedded handle sized to fit your hand with the kind of hang angle that gets you behind the cut for maximum cutting leverage; a stable plate where even the bottom of the handle secures the lower third of real estate firmly; a stiff plate guaranteed to plow through the toughest of American hardwoods; and finally, the kind of visual aesthetic one may customize to suit his or her individual taste.
Bottom line up front: We designed 26", 24" and 22" taper-ground hand and panel saws, patterned closely after the venerable Disston D8 and Simonds skewbacked handsaws. While our saw's overall plate and handsaw pattern resembles that of the Disston D8, we incorporated the pre-1928 Simonds handsaw let-in mounting pattern for the handle, available in both standard and thumbhole-grip versions.
22" available in: 10ppi Cross Cut or 7ppi Rip
24" available in: 9ppi Cross Cut or 6ppi Rip
26" available in: 8ppi Cross Cut or 5.5ppi Rip