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Bad Axe Tool Works 'American Kid' Back Saw: $275
(Delivery: 8-12 weeks)
Tired of hovering over your kids when they're in the shop out of fear that they'll drop one of your high-end saws and break the handle?
Join the club. If your kids are anything like mine (7-year old girl & 9-year old boy), and if you're anything like me (helicopter Dad, sure, I'll admit it), it's really hard to just let them be after you've gifted them a saw for Christmas and shown them how to use it, right? After all--a child won't adopt your interest in woodworking or even hang out in the shop with you if you're constantly telling them: "Watch where you put that saw!" afraid that they'll knock it off the bench or step on it. After all--children act just like little kids, don't they?
So give them a tougher saw. Something that won't break if it's dropped onto the floor, and with a slightly more durable plate with a filing that makes it easy to work with smaller physiques and hands.
Give them an American Kid.
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Specifications:
X-Small, Small, Regular and size Large handles available for your child's hand (or your own inner child seeking a smaller saw).
Traditional Wheeler Madden Clemson-styled open handle available in quartersawn white oak, cherry, walnut, or maple.
.02-gauge plate filed 14 ppi hybrid-cut for maximum flexibility in cutting, with relaxed rake at the toe end of the toothline for ease in starting.
Available in 8-inch toothline.
Other alloys/finishes and wood species available per customer-selected option.
Sizing Handles that Fit Your Hand
Here's my hand: it measures about 3 3/4" across. That's what I'm calling regular, and it will work with a range from 3 5/8" and start getting tight at 3 7/8." Bigger hands just under 4" up to 4 1/8" spans will require the size Large handle. Going the opposite direction, if the span of your hand measures in the 3 ¼ up to 3 1/2" range, then we're looking at a size small handle.

So--here's the answer to those of you with kids who tend to act like Curious George in the workshop. Channel that energy and fan their burgeoning interest in woodworking by giving them a real tool that fits,will withstand a little abuse, and works for smaller physiques; a tool they'll cherish, and will want to pass on down to their children someday.
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The American Kid from Bad Axe: It's a great alternative to X-Box.

All Bad Axe Tool Works Saws are highly customizable, and Feature the Following:
- Highly-figured 19th-century patterned hickory handles, also available in cherry and walnut.
- Three handle sizes available: Small, Regular & Large.
- Flush-face slotted sawbolts/nuts in brass or carbon steel finished in optional black-oxide or niter-blue with 13/16" deep-dish decorative medallion.
- Traditional Folded Carbon Steel sawback.
- Standard black-oxided or optional titanium-nitrided (TiN)-plated finish on saw backs.
- Premium-grade Swedish Spring Steel Sawplates, RC50-52.
- Traditional hammer-set toothline, sharpened to joint.
- Bad Axe saw re-sharpening rate $15 nominal fee.
- Lifetime guarantee against all material defects.
Learn more about our material choices and saw design rationale.
Other Top Selling Bad Axe Saws and Accessories:
- Bad Axe 10" Half-Blind Dovetail Back Saw
- Bad Axe 10" Luthier Back Saw
- Bad Axe American Kid Back Saw
- Bad Axe 12" 'Stiletto' Dovetail Back Saw
- Bad Axe 12" Hybrid Back Saw
- Bad Axe 14" 'Bayonet' Precision Carcase Saw
- Bad Axe 14" No. 9 Precision Tenon Saw
- Bad Axe 16" Tenon Back Saw
- Bad Axe 18" Large Tenon Back Saw
- Bad Axe 20" Miter Box Saw
- Bad Axe 'Roubo Beastmaster X-Large Timber-Framing Back Saw
- Bad Axe D8 Hand and Panel Saws
- Bad Axe 'One Sawyer Roubo' Finished Frame Saw & Kerfing Plane
- Bad Axe Frame Saw & Kerfing Plane Kits
- Bad Axe Bench Hook Sets
- Bad Axe Saw Sharpening Seminars
- Friedrich Dick Saw Files and Lutz File Handles
- Bad Axe Tool Care
- Bad Axe Accessories
- Bad Axe 14" Sash Saw (discontinued)