Sven saw replacement blade disappointment

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I decided to replace the saw blades on the Sven saws that I have. I have two. I haven't used them much over the last few years and when i picked them up they were used. I thought they were both identical but the were not. One of them has a longer handle below the blade that you can actually hold on to with a full grip. I came across some replacement blades for 8.99 on the net. They came 21 inch with the dog leg for the wing nut. The teeth on the blade did not have the large rakers on it. The attachment holes were much larger in diameter than on the original blade. After replacing the blades, I found them to have a lot of play and did not tighten up well after the wing nut was tightened up all the way. The package said it was a replacement blade for the SVEN saw and the company said SWEN on it. I did not see a manufacture country anywhere on the blade or the packaging. It did say Duluth on the package but not the blade. I thought the blades were originally made in Sweden. I would save the money next time and take the original blade to the hardware store and buy a replacement there. It would be easy to replace the dogleg on the blade by knocking out the retaining pin and reattaching it to the new replacement blade. I might just buy a longer bowsaw blade, cut it to size and try and drill my own holes for the small attachment pins instead of the larger holes manufactured on the blade. I think that is were the slop comes from. The holes on the new blade were close in size to the holes on a lined sheet of paper for a notebook. Oh well, live and learn. I wanted the saw to be really tight and not wobble back and forth. Just be aware.