Flush-cutting Saws that Work

Because I’m a chairmaker, I’ve been on a decades-long quest for good flush-cutting saws. A chair can have as many as 20 through-tenons that need to be cut close.

I have tried more than a dozen saws, from a $300 handmade one (too fragile for my work) to the home-center ones (worthless). During the last 10 years, I have settled on two saws that work quite …