Tenon Saw for side groves on a Classical Guitar

[zendo]

In the past I have used a tenon saw with a 1mm cut for the groves in the heel that take the side pieces. It would be more useful and more accurate to use a saw with a 2mm cut. Courtnall suggests setting the teeth wider on a tenon saw but I don't think the 12 or 14 tpi would allow for such a wide cut... any ideas welcomed... what do others do?

[kiwigeo]

Option 1 - Do the 1mm cut. Stick a 1m thick cabinet scraper in the cut and do another 1mm cut using the cabinet scraper as a guide. Youll end up with a 2mm wide cut.

The other option is to adjust the set on the teeth of the saw to 2mm. You can do it yourself or take it to a sawyer.

[P Bill]

Try here http://www.woodworkforums.com/f152/ . Many threads about making, dressing, setting, filing, resto, you name it.

Many beautiful and useful saws made from scratch.

[DarwinStrings]

Instead of trying to set your back saw to 2mm you could go to a larger toothed cross cut and set that wide.

Jim

[zendo]

Thanks for the tips.... especially to you martin... the local saw sharpener can do it with my old tenon saw so I will do that... recut and decrease the tpi allowing for the wider teeth... I have tried the method you set out and it works ok but the old perfectionist in me says something else.... cheers

[ernieman]

I've learned to scrape the sides to the desired thickness where they go into the neck. But then a 1 mm cut is a bit thin. Can't you set it like 1.5 and then do the scraping method?
BTW, if you scrape, do it on the inside (pretty obvious, but worth mentioning).

EJ