Which Saw should I buy?

[Big Chris]

I bought a Silky Gomboy 240 with medium teeth and also bought a coarse tooth blade for the saw.
I have used the coarse tooth blade for everything from green on the tree to dead rock hard dry and it is amazing. I have yet to use a hand saw of any configuration that cuts as clean, fast, or as aggressive as the Gomboy 240. Both the medium and coarse blades cut great but I am sold on the coarse because for what I do I don't need a really neat cut. They also cut very straight. I have some saws that will drift and wander while sawing but the Silky does not. I am considering getting another much bigger one.

 

[Ausseknifeknut]

Are these fiskars saws worth buying ?

 

[jonnyt16]

I bought a Silky Gomboy 240 with medium teeth and also bought a coarse tooth blade for the saw.
I have used the coarse tooth blade for everything from green on the tree to dead rock hard dry and it is amazing. I have yet to use a hand saw of any configuration that cuts as clean, fast, or as aggressive as the Gomboy 240. Both the medium and coarse blades cut great but I am sold on the coarse because for what I do I don't need a really neat cut. They also cut very straight. I have some saws that will drift and wander while sawing but the Silky does not. I am considering getting another much bigger one.

By coarse teeth do you mean the large (or extra large) teeth? I'm looking to upgrade my camping saw and have pretty much decided on Silky but I am torn on which teeth to go with. I have a lot of oak trees in my area.

 

[Big Chris]

If I remember correctly the saw had options of fine, medium, and coarse.

I could only find the 240 with fine or medium already installed.

I used mine mainly on a dead/dying Ash and it made all my other saws look like kids toys.

 

[mykel m]

My Silky Gomboy 270 with medium teeth out cut my homemade buck saw with a 21" fiskars blade by approx. half the strokes.
And as you can see, the silky has half the blade length and only cuts on the pull stroke, but it still out performed the buck saw.
Can't recommend silky's enough and the medium teeth are a good enough for most uses.

The Silky out cut the Corona and Fiskars folders also.

The Silky medium tooth is a good compromise for all around wood cutting IMO.