Silky Professional Series PocketBoy Folding Saw 170mm Large Teeth (346-17)

For a small saw it makes quick work of limbs. I have quickly cut through some decent sized limbs, and even some logs roughly 12" in diameter. It's a great tool to have while camping.update time. I'd give it 6 stars... I beat the snot out of this thing, and for 4 seasons of riding and camping it's been abused and poorly taken care of, and it just keeps working. the blade is still very sharp, and cuts very efficiently. even the plastic case is still in working shape. I leave it bouncing around in the back of my Rzr with my other tools and it never fails me.

I just reviewed the full size 240 gomboy and it is amazing piece of tool that I don't see myself parting with any time soon. This pocketboy is another one of those amazing Silky. I chose large teeth because I had good experience with it in full size and it did not disappoint. As a matter of fact, this little saw is a work horse in my household doing almost all wood sawing around the house. This is the first thing my wife looks for when she is gardening and I can't blame her. cuts smooth, very quick and super efficiently without much effort. What more can you expect out of a pocket saw? This isn't your average pocket saw though. If this is the only saw you're buying from Silky, you will soon start to realize that this thing is doing all the chores!!! And the fact that, you are hardly using any other saw any more ever since you got this one. It literally only takes about 1/2 of the effort you normally put into sawing with other saws and the cut is super smooth as well. 7" Bahco laplander is also slower than this saw according to my sawing comparison. I also have 6" fiskar and it doesn't even come close. A winner and the most efficient little saw I have ever had...period.

These are used when we go camping instead of an axe. They cut small to medium sized limbs for firewood. You're not going to split wood with it like you do an axe but for trimming limbs or sawing deadwood found on the ground, these are excellent. They are easy to transport and work very well for our purpose - camping. We also have used them for landscaping - to trim limbs off trees or to help with clean up after a winter storm. These saws are hard workers and worth every penny.

I can't think of anything I dislike about this straight Silky PocketBoy saw with large teeth and a 6.7 inch blade length. I live on a small tree farm, and I recently had a number of trees cut down by someone with a chain saw. Now I'm using the PocketBoy to saw up the limbs on the ground. I literally sit down on the ground with my limbs and have at it with my handy PocketBoy.I used it one time to cut down a very small tree (no more than two inches in diameter) to ground level. It performed great at that too, although a curved PocketBoy might work better for that type of task.This PocketBoy was my starter saw among the Silky brand of saws. My training is nearly complete. Lessons learned:1. This saw is energy saving because very little effort is required. The saw does most of the work.2. Silky saws are fast, a testament to the effectiveness of the blade. If you want a slow saw, buy something else.3. It is designed to cut only on the pull, and I barely use any pressure against the wood on the pull. On the push, I use no pressure against the wood, only pressure to move the saw back into position for the next pull. It takes a little practice to learn the Silky saw way.Still on my to do list is to learn how to clean my Silky saws.I now have five Silky saws in my collection: the professional 21-ft extendable pole saw, the professional series KatanaBoy 500, the BigBoy 2000 with extra large teeth, the Zubat professional 330 with large teeth, and the PocketBoy 346-17 reviewed here.All of them are AWESOME, and I like the fact that the blades are replaceable.

I previously reviewed the 130 and 170 sizes with medium teeth and gave both five stars for sharpness and manufacturing quality. I also have a large tooth Silky Pocketboy in the 130 size, which I tried for backcountry purposes before I bought the 170 size with large teeth. The latter (large teeth, 170 size) is the ultimate backcountry saw. I'm sold on Silky saws, but I wanted here to confine my comments to the 170 size with large teeth as a backcountry saw, for clearing brush and cutting the small trees and bushes (wet wood) that interfere with placing a tent or hammock shelter in places too tight or too steep to put a tent down. The testing ground was British Columbia (Canada) where the salal and undergrowth are so dense that there are few or no places to put down a tent without first clearing the site. I think this is an excellent backcountry saw. It's incredibly sharp, and it cuts only on the pull stroke, so you just grab the bush with one hand and sever it at the base, in one or two strokes with the other. Cutting through an inch thick base of a bush takes only one or two strokes. The large tooth is designed for wet wood, and gummy, sappy wood where it would be difficult to clean a saw with smaller teeth, or where smaller teeth would clog with sap and sawdust, reducing the efficiency of the saw. The large teeth are easy to clean after use, and I saw no tendency to clog at all. For dry wood, I think the medium teeth model gives a nicer cut, but in wet wood in the backcountry you don't care about the quality of the cut. All you want is to cut through the obstacle as quickly as possible. The large teeth excel at that task. The feel of the handle is perfect. It feels like a knife or scythe in operation, depending on what you're cutting. I spray my blades before going out with Bostik tool spray to keep sap and gum from adhering to the blade, so the teeth clean easily afterwards.Before writing this, I reviewed the four star reviews to see why those users didn't give the saw five stars. They described a "fragile" blade that could "bend" or "break" at the tip. The only way you could bend or break a Japanese saw is by trying to push the blade forward, as you would an American/European saw. Even when these reviewers disclaim having pushed the blade forward to cut, you can't bend or break a Japanese saw if you just pull it. It never bends. A Japanese saw blade is supposed to be extremely thin because it can't be bent or broken when it's just pulled. Japanese saws have almost no "set" to the teeth. The saw kerf is extremely narrow and very little sawdust is produced because very little material is removed to make the cut. It cuts with short, LIGHT strokes and very little pressure. Adding additional force downward doesn't make it cut faster. The bevel on the Japanest teeth is set to maximize cutting efficiency for light strokes that never tax the blade. It's difficult at first, if you've never used a Japanese saw before, to understand that pushing the blade has no cutting effect at all. The saw cuts only on the pull stroke. So if you use it properly, especially in the backcountry, there is no risk of the blade bending or breaking, which is really important if you can't afford to damage the blade and be without a saw in the deep boonies. The saw teeth are induction hardened, so the saw blade stays sharp longer than American/European saws, but the blade is not resharpenable. The blade is half as thick as a comparably sized push cut blade, so it's lighter, allowing the manufacturer to put extra weight into other components, like the hinge, lock and ferrule, which is what Silky did. This is a rugged saw in all the right places. Just watch out when using it because the blade is coming towards you, with little effort, and it's cutting so fast that the branch you're sawing comes off very quickly. You don't want to cut yourself as well . . .