Wonderful, Kat! The whole point is to encourage. Alex

Yes, I suppose that I am mad...in a good way! Enjoy your learning .

Thanks Alex Mosher!

Yes, it can be a bit of work, but hand tools can free us from the limitations of our machines--while you still have them! Alex

Alex Mosher i agree 100% !!! more i know power tools more i love hand tools!!!...hand tools in most of the cases give a far better control!!! power tools have a lot of weak points, ...replace belts, bits, motors, special parts... a good well sharpened handsaw and a well tuned handplane give a lot of fun and satisfaction! greetings from Argentina!!!! :D :D

Glad to be helpful. Alex

Alex Mosher I tried it today, it works very very good! i never got that result with my bandsaw!!!! thanks for your videos!!! bye!!

Alex Mosher Ah! i forgot,which tpi do you think is the best for resawing? or is all about the kind of wood?..bye!!!

+Simon Hillier This is how it works--we learn from each other. Thanks for watching!

No, my friend. You want to be you--with a big saw! Alex

Yes, I'm thinking that the slanted vice deserves a video of its own. As you know I like leg vices, but this slanted one was designed to solve a specific shortcoming of leg vices--which it does very well. It is a little eccentric, but that suits me well, as you know. Alex

Alex Mosher Eccentricity is a virtue.How else are we to survive? Here in old Ontario the Liberals now have us well under the thumb. Survival is all that's left. Time now for folks here to take lessons on starvation avoidance from the Bluenosers.The tables have turned!

At the end of the cut, I realign the board so that it is parallel to the bench top, with the uncut end projecting past the end of the bench. I then can keep the saw blade in the kerf and cut down the remaining end grain. Works well. Alex

Thank you for taking the time to respond, I'll give it a try when it comes up. Never tried sawing wood in that dimension by hand before.

Thanks for kind comments.

you should've just bought a band saw.

Ian Kyle go buy a dictionary and look up the word artisan - you just might find something to aspire to.

An old carpenter once asked me if I filed my own saws, or did I just 'file at them.' I do sharpen my own saws, but I'm no expert at it. When sawing gets to be hard work, your saw is dull! Thanks for the question, Jeff. --Alex

+Jl Cuak That should be an excellent saw for resawing. Good sawing!

Cool, thanks for your vids!

+Jl Cuak I was going to ask the same thing - I have some thick boards I want to cut down for shelving, looks like I'll be getting a Rip Saw ;)

_"What saw would you recommend for this process?"_ A bandsaw! ;-p

Hi Greg, Not sure about your saw, Greg. It's probably a general purpose saw meant to carry around in a toolbox, and will likely cut both crosscut and rip. It likely has a lot of set which means that it will cut quickly but can wander off your line. Sometimes the best policy with an aggressive saw is to lighten up on the pressure, and let the saw do the work. Slowing down sometimes gets you there faster, just practise. Alex

Sounds great, I'll try it out and practice on some scrap wood.

I know this is a late response but I had a similar problem and I found a solution. I have two rips saws, same brand, cheap stanleys made in Brazil, I am English but live in Uruguay. They are different sizes and ages, about 5 years between them. The smaller older always cut straight. But the newer larger always cut to one side. No matter how I addressed the wood. Sometimes the cut would end up about half an inch out. I set the teeth so that it produced a wider kerf and gave me the chance to see if that was the problem as the blade often used to bind in the cut. It made the cut easier but it still veered. To cut a long story short, it took 5 years to resolve this problem, I found the kerf saw. I don't own a kerf saw, but I may make one, but, cutting a kerf in both sides of the wood will give you a better chance of cutting straight. Cuts that used to take hours and hours of careful cutting and guiding the saw slowly can now be done in a fraction of the time. As in Alex's video. To produce a kerf, I clamp a straight edge (usually an appropriate sized board) along the proposed cut and with my rip saw, cut a kerf about 1/8 inch deep on both sides. Then I can rip effortlessly.

peace bewith u Thanks for the question.The thin strips would not be suitable for laminating, at least not straight from the saw. You will need to clean up the sawn surfaces with a hand plane--then you are good to go! --Alex

well thank you for the answer sir!

K Hat Lots can go wrong--dull saw, improper set of the teeth causing the saw to wander to one side or the other--or, as you suspect, putting too much pressure on the saw. Lighten up a bit and go a little slower, and you will soon see what is happening. Little things make all the difference. Keep the faith, and keep trying. Alex

K Hat try making a kerfing plane and use it first. its a like a small handsaw with a fence on it. gets you started all the way around the stock then with a bigger saw you can fallow the channels made. Tom Fidgen has a great video on it.

+Crazylalalalala I don't have a kerfing plane, but I have used a plough plane to cut a 1/8" groove around the board, but I'm not sure that this extra work is worth the effort, at least when using a handsaw. Maybe when using a frame saw. The main thing is to determine why the handsaw is behaving as it is. --Alex

Thanks!

Right you are, BigBoss 429, but resawing as a term brings to mind the use of the bandsaw, so I used a verbal tweak to indicate something entirely different.

Alex Mosher Ah, thank you!