What hand saw do you guys like for cutting dados and sliding dovetails?

Wow! I had to go find out what a “curved Z saw” was… Personally, I don’t use a saw to cut dados, I use a plane… Stanley 39 of the dado width I need. The skewed iron makes short work of cleaning the bottom as I go. No chisel required! On large dados, as in half lap joints, I use an older 14 point tennon saw.

Regards, the Kentucky Toolsmith!

-- "Good enough" is just another way of saying "it could be better"...

I’ve got the Veritas crosscut carcass saw. I’m pretty happy with it.

Dados? Mainly a Stanley #45. Small, narrow dados…

Like these?

I use the mitre box saw, to saw the sides of the dados, then the chisel to clean the waste out….

Sliding dovetails? Router, dovetail bit. guide fence…

-- A Planer? I'M the planer, this is what I use

Sliding dovetails?

(I know, I’m being a smart&ss…)

:-)

-- Don't anthropomorphize your handplanes. They hate it when you do that. -- OldTools Archive --

Dado stack on the table saw for dadoes or router for sliding dovetails.

-- Kenny, SW VA, Go Hokies!!!

Router with a fence for both.

-- Petey