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Buying your first Japanese pull saw shouldn't be complicated. Here's an honest, use-case-based ranking of the best Japanese saws for...

A Japanese saw that won't cut straight is almost always tellingly a fixable problem — usually in technique, occasionally in...

Can you sharpen a Japanese pull saw? For most modern saws, the honest answer is mostly no — they're designed...

A well-cut dovetail closes with no daylight showing through the joint. A Japanese dovetail saw — what Japan calls a...

Two saws, two philosophies. Japanese pull saws and Western push saws aren't the same tool with different handles — they're...

Kataba isn't the third category in the Japanese saw lineup — it's the underlying single-edged form from which ryoba and...

A flush cut saw is a one-job specialist — trimming dowels, plugs, and tenons flush to a surface without scratching...

A ryoba saw is two saws in one blade — rip teeth on one edge, crosscut on the other. Here's...