Suggestions for a carving saw please

[Coletti]

And also I'm in no hurry so thinking of waiting till the arb show in June to see if I can get a bargain or two I like shiny new stuff haha

[Robert_S]

I have a 211 with a carving bar it's a nice saw to use, I've carved one thing and it was rubbish but the saw is fine

[splinters]

The ms200 with the back handle (cant remember model), is a very good carving saw.

 

That would be the MS 200 then:lol: the top handle one is called the MS 200 T

[Woodcrafter]

I have a husky 137 with a dime tip bar I like it for fine detailing its a little heavy for long use but has a great balance on the front handle to do the tip work.

I also have a back handled ms 200 with another dime tip bar and its my favourite its a little to light for some of my detailing tends to bounce a bit on hard woods when doing work with the tip which can be annoying but I just love, it's power is immense.

I also use a 026 to rough out and 044 and haven't had to use the 066 yet but I want to.

[Gus McWilliam]

021s are pretty cheap on ebay. Better build quality than 211s imo

[NorfolknGood]

the ms 150 is a little small to be your main detail saw.

 

Does that depend on the size of carvings you will be doing or generally too small for a detail saw?

 

I am a bit of an old woman and running a chain slack due to no sprocket in the nose of a carving bar sounds scary to me. I rather like the narrow (not as narrow as a carving bar) bar on the MS150 which has a sprocket and normal chain tension

[Gnome]

I have a MS211 with 14"standard bar, use this for most of my cutting.

 

A Husky 240 with oregon 14" sculpture bar with the back of the top plates on the chain grinded. happy enough with this for carving.

 

An MS150 10"which is my new best friend and I hope to be using this for some detailing work.

 

And Husky 372xp for the big stuff.

 

I only buy new. I don't trust the bay for power tools.