And, speaking of sharpening.I can understand sharpening a chainsaw but to sharpen the saw you cut the fret slots with must take a special jig--sharpening those small teeth must take the touch of a surgeon.
Saws are sharpened in two basic patterns: rip and crosscut. In a rip saw, it goes with the direction of the grain and the teeth are filed 90⁰ like tiny chisels. For cross cuts, which is what happens here, there are angled to be more of a knife cut to cut the fibers of the wood. Because of the size of the saw I'm not doing too big of an angle. The bigger the saw, the more exaggerated the angle becomes.And the angle (60*) Is the correct angle of saw teeth? The shiny edge of teeth just sharpened look good
Saws are sharpened in two basic patterns: rip and crosscut. In a rip saw, it goes with the direction of the grain and the teeth are filed 90⁰ like tiny chisels. For cross cuts, which is what happens here, there are angled to be more of a knife cut to cut the fibers of the wood. Because of the size of the saw I'm not doing too big of an angle. The bigger the saw, the more exaggerated the angle becomes.
True saw sharpening experts will have precise angles and talk of fleam, but for my purposes, as long as they're more or less the same, it'll do the job. It's certainly cutting better and faster now.
Roy Underhill (PBS's The Woodwright's Shop) had a good demonstration of the differences using a straw broom but I can't find that video excerpt. Here's the UK sharpening guru.
That picture gives me clear understanding of size neck on Uke.
On a soprano uke. Personally, I wouldn't want to go smaller than concert size, about 1" longer scale.That picture gives me clear understanding of size neck on Uke.