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Now I know why my haircuts are always bad - barber needs a crosscut saw not a rip saw! Lol. Thanks for the amazing demo and examples!

I nearly had a STROKE when I first herd your PITCH but now that I SAW this I can say I'm all SET.

Another fantastic instructional vid! I am an information person, and by that I mean the more information I have about something the more comfortable I am about using or doing that something. I have enjoyed your vids on how to use a tool, make a cut, or build a “something”, and this was pure icing on the cake. Teaching someone WHY you want something done a particular way gets better results than just TELLING them to do it. And your chisel demo of a rip vs crosscut saw tooth was great! Thanks once again!

Thanks for the video, I have a couple of the Rob Cosman saws and love them.

Rob I really want to thank you for regular teachings and your time that you have given. I hope at some point to donate to the Purple Heart. You are a blessing. Thank you.

Great video Rob, Thank you!

Excellent video Rob, great format!

Rob I admire your professionalism and integrity in creating an informative video while taking great care to be both forthcoming about your business and completely neutral in your presentation. It would have been easy for someone with lower professional standards to turn that type of video into a 30 minute infomercial. Thank you for not doing that.

Can only say, I wish you were my carpentry teacher when I was at school Rob! I’ve learned more about saws in 20 minutes than I ever did there. - More importantly the cut they give you, and why! I can already feel my joints are going to be more professional/presentable, , , , , , , , , , I’m getting the urge to go make some dust! Thank you 🪚

I am enchanted with ur saws plus ur way of teaching. Terminology and teeth cleared my questions especially the chisel demo. I hv undying intention to buy ur saw oneday.!!!

As always superb instruction

Another great video Rob. I love your saws, they always cut straight and true.

You really are a master Rob. Had never even heard the word fleam before!! Thanks for sharing your wealth of knowledge.

Excellent video Rob. Packed with useful and interesting information. Thank you. 👍🏻

Thank you for your knowledge

Thanks for this video Rob! What about panel saws though? I'm using a Japanese pull saw for long rips and I can't stay to the line for the life of me!

I'm Chinese.Thank you!you're woodwork master!My English very poor!l learned so much!Thank you!

Pura vida guys great video and value information you shared it my amigo Rob pura vida

Thanks Professor Cos. Great explanation of the difference in saws. Happy New Year to you and yours.

Nice presentation thanks

Thank you.

Thanks for great lesson!! Take care!

A lot interesting and fulfilling all the doubts, if any. Just can't wait to receive my dovetail saw!!! I'm sure it will improve my skills...

Thanks Rob, great video. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Great explanation, and for those questioning their ability to sharpen, just practice, it doesn't hurt to try.

Kudos for the US Special Operations patch. Great video. Very informative.

Great instruction! I am anxiously awaiting delivery of my dovetail saw. One of your crosscut saws is next on my list. Thank you for helping me understand the nuances of the different saw types. Have a Happy New Year!!!

Really, really a great video. I saved it on my "saw" playlist. Thanks so much for that Rob.

Great video Rob and crew! Happy New Year!

Thank you Rob, Jake ,Frick amazing video lots of information great way of explaining it . Thats the second video today 😁

Great lesson on backsaw

Another informative video. Happy new year cosman crew!

Rob thank you so much help ,I now understand saws better. Julien

Great video. So informative.

A very useful lesson 👍🏼

Very informative.

Beautiful explanation of rip vs. crosscut, Rob. The little models and the chisel demos make it so crystal clear. Nicely done!

Thank you! I learned a lot! I am really leaning towards hand tools as a beginner.

Thanks for the info. I just know about rip & cross teeth saw

great video

By far the best lesson on handsaws I've seen !!! Simply amazing !!!

Good review of saw terminology, design and use. Just received my first Cosman saw but have not used it yet but looking forward to it. Been out on the mill cutting pecan.

Awesome, thanks Rob. Love the patches. I now have to look for the possibilities of you describing how you got em. I'm interested to know the back story.

Hey Rob an idea for a fun video: Make a box using japanese hand tools :D

thanks rob so much good information.

Great saw education~! Until I acquired saws from your lineup, I'd always avoided using handsaws as much as possible (i.e., not much hand-tool work). I now look forward to using them and select projects that involve using them more. Excellent equipment~!! I've now resigned my pull-saws to general cut-off operations, as needed. :-)

You should do a video about Japanese saws vs western saws. The Japanese pull saws seem to be very popular with all the recommended channels on KZfaq.

Another superb illustrated lecture added to the list. This one on hand saw types and performance is an example of highly effective information delivery in a concentrated demonstration. Genius.

Rob! Thank you for this video. The information was over the top for me. I have several of my grandfather's saws which I cherish, but didn't have a clue on their function. So therefore they just hung on the wall like trophies. Thanks to you, no more!

Very informative and interesting. Thankyou! One thing I couldn’t quite make out was the name of the joinery book with the vise build in it?

Hi, I'm Uthuman, I like your teaching, your work and I like to meet you

Just received my first Cosman saw, the dovetail saw. It’s a gorgeous tool. Can’t wait to use it. And I’m going to get others as well. Thanks Rob.

aaahhh my day is complete....

Rob you explain everything so well, you remind me of my shop teacher in 9th grade.. A random question who gave you the 2nd ACR Tojour Pret Patch? I served in the 2nd in the 80's.

Great video, this, like many you've done over the last while, this is a reference video for us! One thing would help as we try to sharpen our own saws, you mentioned some angles for the tooth configuration but not all, this is critical to ongoing saw maintenance. I checked the full description of the saws you sell, they all are listed, even the cross cut as having a zero degree rake. You mention in this video that you relax the rake on your tenon saw by 3 or 4 degrees. Could you please clarify some of this, would help us tremendously in our attempt at using our saws for daily use. Thank you for all you do to preserve the craft of hand tool wood working.

Nice one Rob. I'm in the market for a new tenon saw....

I've tried to use a backsaw before, I can't use them. Puts too much pressure in my shoulder believe it or not. Now, a pull saw, those I can use all day long. Wouldn't mind seeing your comparison of saws vs a pull saw. Cheers :)

Man you explain things and demonstrate them so well. Helps so much. Thank you

Thank you for a great site! I would sincerely love to buy one or more of you saws, but apparently you do not export to my country, South Africa. Is there any way to overcome this obstacle, please!

Extremely valuable episode. Very important to understand the difference in the physics of cross and rip cuts, and Rob’s teaching method and training aids were perfect. Save this one to your watchlist and review it until you can teach it yourself.

Hoping to pickup a cosman dovetail saw soon

Dear Rob, I am very much inspired by your enthusiasm. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Your presentation is just superb.

It seems almost everyone suggests that rip teeth can't be used for cross-cut purposes, except for the roughest, nastiest purposes. I have found that you can use a rip saw with higher pitch than a cross-cut saw to cut cross-cut at the same or better rate with a clean cut. Certainly a 4-point rip saw will cut rougher than an 8-point panel saw, but it will also cut many times faster. A 12-point rip saw may cut just as fast or faster than the 8-point cross cut saw, and not be significantly rougher. I found my epiphany reading the writings of Tage Frid, who wrote that when a cross-cut saw gets dull he sharpens it rip, so that virtually all of his saws had rip teeth. I did some experimenting and I was surprised at how well rip saws work in cross-cutting applications. My experience seems to be at odds with what the majority of woodworkers will say will work, but that's what I have found.

Have you found that new saw set pliers are inferior to older, used models? What do you use to adjust set on your dovetails saw?

I am saving so I can buy a Cosman saw.

Rob, is there ever a time under normal use (not dropping it) that you would need to check the set of the teeth? How would you go about doing that?

Interesting video, Rob, very useful and informative. Thank you. I have two bench saws, (three, but it's only used occasionally for larger tenons) both of which are filed for rip cuts. I have my vintage 15tpi dovetail saw with a progressive rake, 15 degrees first inch of plate, 10 degrees the second inch with the remaining teeth filed at 5 degrees. My other saw is a 12tpi tenon saw with the same teeth configuration as above, again filed for rip cut. In all honesty with teeth that small, cross cutting has never been an issue, no tear out on the cross cuts etc. Should you ever work with brittle or difficult words then scoring across the grain with a knife will take care of that. Most hobby woodworkers need little excuses to buy more tools, and why not. However, I found that having to look for and consider another saw of similar size and dimension with a different tooth configuration on the bench was less productive for me. Besides, sharpening cross cut teeth on teeth that small is a lot more challenging than rip cut filing, particularly if ones eyesight is not what it once was. I can sharpen the teeth on my dovetail saw in under 5 minutes from the point of realising it needs a touch up to cutting again with newly sharpened teeth. The key is to do it relatively often so little in the way of jointing the teeth is required That said, all of my saws are vintage which I have been refurbished myself. You are quite correct in saying it does not take too long to learn to file the teeth, although it's a little more challenging if the saw teeth are in poor condition as jointing and reshaping of the teeth is required although even in worse case scenarios a plate can be completely jointed flat, removing all teeth (often quicker than reshaping a badly filed set of teeth) with the being re cut, set and sharpened in a couple of hours. I would follow your suggestion, in that anyone interested should procure some old saws and learn to bring them back to life. The process becomes quite addictive and you will soon find it a straight forward process. The only possible downside is, you may find your pals asking you to sharpen their saws for them, something you may or may not wish to do but its fun and satisfying to know you can do it. Good luck.

Rob what is the book you mentioned?

Hi Rob, Very informative video regarding back saws, thank you. I have a question...are the older saws that are available in flea markets and eBay comparable in quality and blade steel of the modern quality saws available today ? Your videos are very informative and the information is put across in a clear, understandable and easy to follow manner...thank you as I'm sure they are helping many fellow woodworkers.

Thank you for sharing your knowledge with these videos. You explain what works and why from the perspective of the user which I value. I am hoping to get your saws soon. Keep posting it is inspiring and helpful.

This is one of the best videos I have seen about this subject. Great teaching style as well. You say what you are going to teach then discuss it and then summarize it. Very dense information, sometimes like drinking from a fire hose but dispenses with all of the chitchat that unnecessarily prolongs so many woodworking videos. I had to watch it several times. Thanks for what you do for your community and best wishes for continued success in the New Year. Cheers from rural Ohio.

Very informative video! (as usual) With regards to the round/file handled saw (at about the 16:07 mark), isn't that called a gent's saw? In either case, they don't look to be as comfortable as open grip pistol saws.

If given the choice, straight vs tapered, is there a huge benefit with one over the other?

Good video, something I can get me teeth in! Thank you.

Rob, thanks for illustrative demonstration how rip and crosscut saws work. Nothing less, you done again great job as usual in all your videos. Thank you.

Simply a classic. Rob know saws like Bubba knows shrimp. Not only a well trained and skilled saw user but a maker of perhaps the finest saws on the planet, and on top of all that a friend to all his customers. Thanks again Rob and Jake and may 2021 be another good year for you and your family.

Rob, I have to say watch many of you videos and I do like your approach to woodworking and learning. Your videos make you feel as if were standing in the shop with you! Just want tell you thanks, its obvious you love what you do! Steven Columbus Michigan

Can you do a video on planer set up, jointer set up, bandsaw set up?? I would appreciate it greatly.

I swear I saw a couple of them in medieval movies being used for amputation of wounded bodyparts. 😅

Nice tutorial Rob. I'm excited to get my small joinery crosscut saw, should arrive next week. Thank you for explaining things so well in a way that I can understand! And thank you for the PHP, you are doing good work my friend....

Like the 173rd Airborne Unit Patch, I served with B. Co. 3rd/503rd/173rd Airborne in 1970. AATW

Rob, have you ever tried a saw like Frank Klausz uses for dovetails?

Very helpful Rob. I’m gonna order a couple of saws based on your video. Will reach out to your team in the next couple of days.

Rob any limited edition dovetail saw handles on the horizon? Need the look to match the performance.

I wish that I could justify the purchase of a Cosman saw, but alas...I'll have to look for someone to teach me how to restore and sharpen an old one of qulaity. Now that is the hitch. I am not sure of current quality either...

Rob....Love your vids and have all your saws, sharpening stones and a few of your chisels. But absolutely hate the new intro to your presentations. Have a good new year!

I’m 14 and I’m just starting to learn wood working after finding my grandfathers hand tools and restoring them I have two rip saws a hand drill two cross cut saws an axe and a hatchet I’m making my own lumber and frankly just having fun I’m happy to have informative videos like this thank you

Are you going to do a video on saw sharpening soon?

Curious Do you offer a sharpening service?

Still have many hand saws.

Now we're talkin

Now, folded back or solid back?

*Baffled by backsaws* would be a better title

Rob I deeply appreciate your time teaching about saws but you left me way more confused than ever!!??

Very good info, I was waiting on to see when you are starting to advertise or blow your own horn? Actually, right in the beginning… Interesting enough, after all it’s your show and you are not going to promote a Lie Nielsen over yours… It’s been a while since I commented last, not always to your liking since I don’t “kiss up “ like others… I wonder how longer I can read my comment before you are going to remove it?

If the wife ever gives you an ultimatum, or you decide to get rid of anything, I'll be there for you 🙈🙉🙊!

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Half of these are out of stock.

Excellent video Rob. Very informative and your props were fantastic for illustrating the points you made. Thank you for sharing it.