groesener,

I remember reading John Muir's autobiography "The Story of My Boyhood and Youth" where the author made his own saw. Here's the excerpt: " There were a few tools in a corner of the cellar,--a vise, files, a hammer, chisels, etc., that father had brought from Scotland, but no saw excepting a coarse crooked one that was unfit for sawing dry hickory or oak. So I made a fine-tooth saw suitable for my work out of a strip of steel that had formed part of an old-fashioned corset, that cut the hardest wood smoothly."

You could try that approach, but that would be extreme.

---Joe