Welcome to the Woodwork Projects website. I have now been
importing and selling Japanese saws for several years, and have more than 60 different types of
saw for sale! I still aim to give woodworkers some ideas for projects,
together with some constructional details, and I would welcome input from
anyone else who is willing to share his or her ideas with other people. If
you have an interesting project please contact me via my
contact page.
Please
scroll down to see my extensive selection of the brilliant z-saw range of Japanese pullsaws,
all with replaceable blades, and saw guides. Please have a look around my shop: if, like me,
you love well-made tools you will find these irresistible. Alternatively if you would like a printable catalogue of my complete range
to read at leisure please click here.
All the saws and saw guides I sell are top quality z-saws manufactured in Japan by the Okada Manufacturing Company, one of Japan's biggest saw manufacturers. Click here for an excerpt from a Japanese television programme about one of the saw guides. Unless your command of Japanese is much better than mine it probably won't mean a lot to you, but it does give a glimpse of the manufacturing process. Many of my customers have taken the trouble to send me feedback on their purchases, and quite a few have placed repeat orders. Several of these saws were reviewed in issue 147 of Furniture And Cabinet Making Magazine when the editor said "I find their very thin kerfs particularly useful. They also appear to cut faster than Western saws and retain their sharpness for longer." To see what my customers have made with their saws and guides, please have a look at my customer projects page.
This page uses technology which I have not fully tested so please forgive any errors (and let me know about them if you can). If the shop part of the page, below, is slow to open please click here for a lower-graphics version.
My prices all include 20% VAT, and postage and packing are now free for customers in the UK. Customers outside the UK should contact me for a quote as airmail costs vary considerably. Customers outside the EU will not have to pay VAT.
The most important factors to consider when choosing a saw are the materials you plan to cut and how you intend to cut them. Saws for cutting wood fall into 3 main types:
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If you already have one or more z-saw handles and would like to know what blades will fit, you may be interested in my handle guide.