I was recently in a chat room at The Wood Whisperer website and the conversation triggered me into thinking that there are two main groups of woodworkers: the ones that got into woodworking because they wanted to work with wood and make something beautiful with it, and the ones that are into tools and eventually use them to build something following a plan. Continue reading this post…
Monthly Archives: June 2007
June 16, 2007
Japanese saws
I’ve been meaning to try a few Japanese tools for quite some time but only recently I decided to buy one. I chose to go with one of the most popular types of Japanese saws, the ryoba, which has teeth on both sides of the blade, one filed for crosscut and the other to rip along the grain (see photo above).
The other very popular Japanese saw is the dozuki, similar to the western backsaw, and is mostly used to cut fine joinery like dovetails. This is the saw to use when you want the finest cut. Continue reading this post…
