BAD AXE - Premium quality USA made panel and hand saws.   

26 inch (660mm) CROSSCUT panel saws with three hand size variants.

We list, and by default will supply,  the Standard Recommended saw build although you can tailor some of your your heirloom tool components - see below.

If you wish to specify variants please email your preferred combination and we will return an itemised quote for your approval. 

Note supply delays may currently apply due to demand and delays in manufacture caused by COVID. 

When you are happy to commit we will secure a deposit from you and either supply from stock-on-hand or secure your place in the supply queue.

Optional Tooth Guard
Included
Handle Species Variants
Mission White Oak - recommended
Philadelphia Cherry - add $26
Wisconsin Black Walnut - add $35
Pennsylvania Hard Maple - add $50
Hand Size Variants
Small - 81~89mm
Regular - 91~99mm
Large - 101~109mm
Fasteners Variants
Brass Slotted nuts - recommended
Black Oxided/Gun Blued Steel Slotted Nuts - add $28
Gunsmith Nitre-Blued Steel Slotted Nuts - add $39.00

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Please use this calculator to determine your hand size

Conversion: Small up to 90mm, Regular 95~98mm, Large 98mm and larger

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Design Notes:

• 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.
• Traditional 1887-1896 Disston-pattern closed handle, the most elegant pattern Disston ever produced at the apogee of handsaw manufacturing. Available in standard quartersawn white oak, or optional QS cherry, QS walnut, & QS hard maple. three sizes available in Small (S), Regular (R), and Large (L). These handles are available in both standard and thumb-hole grip, the latter also available for southpaws. 
• Good news for southpaws! Are you a left-handed sawyer? Lefties and Southpaws unite! Bad Axe will get you into a thumbhole-grip handle with the contours reversed for a really nice fit.
• Taper-Ground Sawplate: We grind our plates from .04 at the toothline up to .025 at the spine on the heel end, and .034 at the toe end, such that the deeper you plunge the saw into the cut, the more metal gets out of the way as you're pushing the saw through the inside the kerf. (22" panel saws tapers from .035 to .018 at the heel, and from .035 to .028 at the toe).
• Stiff and hammer-tensioned. Great care is exercised to wet-grind the plate evenly, so the plate becomes neither s-rolled or too floppy due to loss in temper from careless grinding, which generates heat. You'll find that our taper-ground plates are hammer-tensioned and quite stiff--one of the most important assets of a hand or panel saw when making big cuts with confidence.
• Fasteners available in standard brass or optional black-oxided, niter-blued, bright nickel-plated steel.
• Plate Depth:
  26" plate: 7 1/4" at the heel, skewing to 25/8" at the toe.
  24" plate: 7" at the heel, skewing to 2 5/8" at the toe.
  22" plate: 6 3/8" at the heel, skewing to 2 7/16" at the toe.
• US 1095 Spring steel Hammer-Tensioned sawplate, with a Rockwell hardness range of 49-52. Toothline is hammer-set & sharpened in configurations optimized for hardwood requirements. We will add more set for customers working predominantly in softwood.

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Handy Conversion table