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How to Saw Straight with a Handsaw | Paul Sellers
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if I told you that I had had thousands
and thousands of people telling me
through my lifetime when I've told them
I'm a carpenter that I make things out
of wood they say oh I can't saw to a
straight life so often that happens that
I feel like I have to do something about
it so what I'm going to do is show you
how to sort a straight line if you take
a square like this and set the distance
like this or you can use a gauge pull a
line down here oops
like this so it's parallel to the edge
sticking on the wood flip it over and do
the same from the other side because
we're going to cut this stick into two
that's the goal and we want them we want
it to be nice and straight and of course
when you're using the saw they might not
be any guarantees up and it like this of
course you might be doing this on saw
horses you could be doing this on the
table a picnic table or whatever so
there I'm connecting the two lines one
side to the other watch what happens
here I'm going to put my thumb on the on
the piece of wood and pull my three
fingers against my upper body and then I
slide the saw up against the line like
this and I go down like that now
remember the first ten strokes are going
to set the course for the whole saw so
we've got to be conscious of that when
we start throwing tilt it like this
watch what happens I use that soccer to
keep me square now I use my I along the
side of our lines
and I start sewing to the line just so I
can see that line now this is perfectly
power that's going really well I'm going
to check this side and see how well it's
going this side it's going well this
side but I can see I'm cutting slightly
in towards the line and I want to cut
parallel do it so I correct it here and
how I do that is I bend the saw slightly
and bring it to this side and if I keep
turning this piece of wood around like
this remembering which side of the lines
of saw I'm going parallel to the line
it's working perfectly I go all the way
down the stick this way but that's not
really helping you because it doesn't
always go perfectly straight what to do
this is the problem sometimes we're not
used to sawing and we start sawing away
from the line or into the line so if I
start sawing away from the line like
this Oh suddenly I start to panic this
size useless it doesn't work well why am
I doing this I should use a machine well
and that's not the case what you have to
do is go back up with the saw up to
where you started to go wrong go back up
here and hold the start function back
and make the correction using the sides
of the teeth to correct you yourself and
get back on track so we're back on track
turn the saw around work from both faces
like this
the other thing is you've got to get
this elbow this shoulder and this hand
in alignment with that piece of wood and
you've also get to get your eye inside -
so we're aligning a whole body according
to what we have here and suddenly we're
straight again we're back on track so
don't forget you use the tip of the
sword to push this side and just work it
this way and till you back on track and
that's how you saw straight using a hand
saw in a rip grain a trip pattern now
here I'm going into the line so I'm
actually on the line so I've got to go
back up here bring this back down here
now I'm on the right side of the line
again keep turning it around through yet
so the other end of the stick of wood
and you will have a reasonably parallel
piece of wood so that's what we want so
just to give you a clearer idea of what
we're talking about here you put this in
the vise this way it's a little bit more
awkward for me but better for you I'm
gonna square my line across the top
again just to repeat what I did earlier
and I want to cut on this side of the
line so I'm going to do this so you can
see it
so I'm parallel to that pencil line and
as I walk down this side I use this saw
kerf in the top to help me steer the saw
remember that those sockets those
opening sockets the ten strokes are the
other most important strokes I turn
around and I come from this side I drop
my home like this I'm using the saw to
steer it right along the line so I'm
parallel to the line as I go I turn
around now I'm going to be parallel on
the opposite face that's how we saw
straight but always remember it's not
always you that's wrong sometimes it's
the saw if the saw is not sharp if some
teeth are sharp and some are not if some
see two teeth are set the wrong way it
can cause you to deviate from the line
so it's not always you so sharp saw well
sets off and then of course the grain
itself can do that if you come up
alongside a knot you can get some
configuration in the grain that can
cause you to deviate too so I'm coming
up on a knockdown here and that might
cause me to deviate so I have to make
sure all conscious of that as I go down
for dressing through the coat one more
turn around and then we'll be through
that it has tightened up on the saw a
great deal what to do so I just take my
rag in a canola oil the plate a little
bit like that and that will help it
might we want to eliminate all of the
pressure can you see how that's
tightened up it's hot there
definitely made a big difference to the
solve a huge difference now I'm through
it that's how we we saw a striker with a
handsaw
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