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novocaine wrote:shiny saw plates are a great tool for perpendicular Adrian.
AJB Temple wrote:novocaine wrote:shiny saw plates are a great tool for perpendicular Adrian.
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Adrian
AJB Temple wrote:My experience is that Japanese saws, of which I have several, work fine at standard bench height. That said, I am quite tall. However, the absolute key to using any saw, whether it be Japanese or western style, is positioning yourself so that that hand, wrist and elbow all work in one plane back and forth in a straight line. I also point my forefinger along the blade too, especially with a backsaw.
When I first started out I practised by marking all around a piece of wood with a square and pencil or knife (making the lines meet perfectly) and then doing numerous cuts taking slices off each time. I taught myself (based on advice similar to this) not to use force, not to get tense and not to allow the blade to deviate from perpendicular. I look over the top of the blade and if I can see one side more than the other, it's not perpendicular.
Straight arm movement is essential - you will never control a saw if you are holding the thing at an angle. A straight action is easy and feels natural and unstressed. Let the saw do the work.
By the way - the long teeth on Japanese saws are not a problem in any way. Just relax and don't force the saw.
Woodbloke wrote: it's a bit of myth that they're 'designed' to be used at floor level. If you've ever been to Japan, you'll soon find out that the Japanese do a lot of stuff at floor level, not just woodmangling. The floor working tradition stems from the vast amount of old wooden buildings that are still in evidence in the Japanese countryside and cities.Rob
Woodster wrote:Woodbloke wrote: it's a bit of myth that they're 'designed' to be used at floor level. If you've ever been to Japan, you'll soon find out that the Japanese do a lot of stuff at floor level, not just woodmangling. The floor working tradition stems from the vast amount of old wooden buildings that are still in evidence in the Japanese countryside and cities.Rob
You seem to be contradicting yourself there?
Tiresias wrote:
Oh, and I have spent some time in Nippon. Fascinating place (for me mostly for the food). So did my father. And, rightly or wrongly, he told me that (unless you wanted to get more deeply into their culture) it was best to treat the Nipponese as a ‘black box’ device: certain inputs would result in certain responses – beyond that they were incomprehensible. Do bear in mind the caveat – he was neither racist or racialist.
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