ZONA - ZON35-550 35-550 Fine Razor Saw, 42 TPI.010-Inch Kerf, Blade Length 6-1/2-Inch, Cut Depth 1-3/16-Inch

Very sharp! Cuts great and the price was very good! I use this saw to cut mostly pine, balsa and bass wood for hobby crafts and it works very well!

I bought this to replace a razor saw I bought last year, a different brand, that was very frustrating to use because, no matter what, it always bound up. Eventually the old saw developed kinks along its cutting edge. I used it to cut small pieces of craft wood like craft sticks and basswood up to 1/2" thick. This Zona saw does not bind; perhaps it's sharper or has more precisely ground teeth? I use very little pressure when cutting, take my time, and the cut is on the push stroke. The old saw seemed to cut on both the push and pull strokes and would bind when I changed from pull to push. The quality of the wood handle seems better, too, more carefully finished.

This is great working with balsa or bass wood. Cuts clean ,with smooth edges.

A good Saw, very precise in cutting. Sold as a .010" saw, but I'm measuring, the blade measures .0105" and with the offset of the teeth, it cuts a .012" kerf. I am using this to cut bone nuts for my guitars and so far, very happy with the purchase.

Worked awesome on my model car project. Super easy to control and cut a straight line.

Good

This is a very serviceable razor saw. I prefer saws like this one where the blade is firmly attached to the handle rather than those like the X-Acto where the blade can be removed for replacement. With the latter, if the blade binds up, you can pull the saw apart before you get the blade out of the work. (I mean no general slam on X-Acto products. They make some very nice tools.) The blade is thin but substantial enough to remain rigid when cutting fairly hard or thick materials. Since I've mentioned it, a further word on these blades' tendency to bind. If you've never used one before, don't think that that tendency is necessarily a flaw in the tool. Because these saws have very fine teeth, their set is also very slight. That means a bit of binding comes with the territory. Finally, a reminiscence for anyone reading this who remembers Campbell Coe. In the early 1970s, I was working on a banjo neck. I needed fret material and a saw to cut the slots, and my friends told me to visit a luthier (not to mention a terrific guitarist — among other things) in a small shop in Berkeley, Campbell Coe. I'd heard the name. (He was legendary. I remember a bumper strip that said, "Campbell Coe is a myth.") I protested that he wasn't going to have time or patience to talk to some kid off the street trying his hand at making a stringed instrument. But my friends insisted, and I visited his shop. My expectation about Coe were completely wrong. He spent a good bit of an afternoon giving me advice, a length of fret wire — without charge — and the name of a brand of razor saw that'd work perfectly with that wire. As I think everybody who knew him says, he was a complete gentleman. He was a lot of help to me, and that afternoon remains a memory I hold dear fifty years after the fact.

I needed, and still need, something that cuts *straight* and has zero set, or at least, absolutely-minimal set. This would have been great - *IF* is had arrived perfectly straight. A while back, I purchased a Suizen "Dovetail Saw", which is at least as thin and maybe even thinner, and it arrived perfectly straight, so I know it's not too much to ask. ((It does have a set, so I can't use it for tiny pieces.)) I had hope that this Zona saw would replace my use of a steel straightedge and a #25 X-acto or similar blade for making straight cuts in 1/16" basswood plyboard, but nope, because it's not straight. It DOES cut, so it's good for things that don't have to be straight right off because I'll be doing more work on them, BUT for things I need to be straight-cut, a warped saw doesn't cut the proverbial mustard.