My house was built around 1868 by Warren Bundy, a carpenter who invented a legendary handsaw tooth design (BMT). The design featured an angled gullet and a raker that worked like a chisel to remove the wood between the two parallel lines scored due to the set of the cutters. Before this, most saw either had cutters that also did duty as rakers (by default) or rakers that really just scrapped the saw dust out of the cut (rather than a chisel action).
Some saw sharpeners did swage rakers to achieve the chisel effect, but this saw eliminated the swaging step.
This saw also was a combination saw (rip, crosscut and miter saws in one). The amazing thing is that it did all three tasks exceedingly well.
It cut “faster, easier, and cleaner than any other saw” and is still a prized hand saw today. I asked about BMT saws on a woodworking forum recently and an owner of a Warren Bundy saw stated, “I have never used a saw that cut so fast and so smoothly...” As a carpenter and woodworker, it was a fantastic discovery that an inventor of a legendary hand saw, was likely the carpenter who built the hotel that is now my home. Bundy also invented saw setting and weeding tools.
Cheers,
Bass
Some saw sharpeners did swage rakers to achieve the chisel effect, but this saw eliminated the swaging step.
This saw also was a combination saw (rip, crosscut and miter saws in one). The amazing thing is that it did all three tasks exceedingly well.
It cut “faster, easier, and cleaner than any other saw” and is still a prized hand saw today. I asked about BMT saws on a woodworking forum recently and an owner of a Warren Bundy saw stated, “I have never used a saw that cut so fast and so smoothly...” As a carpenter and woodworker, it was a fantastic discovery that an inventor of a legendary hand saw, was likely the carpenter who built the hotel that is now my home. Bundy also invented saw setting and weeding tools.
Cheers,
Bass
