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AndyT wrote:Could you say a bit more about what you are doing/making?
If you describe the wood as 1ft 3in diameter, it sounds like a small tree. Is your next step conversion into boards?
Windows wrote:..... presumably you arrange things so that the floating end is to your left (if you’re right handed)?
Mike G wrote:Windows wrote:..... presumably you arrange things so that the floating end is to your left (if you’re right handed)?
No, absolutely not. That would leave the the bigger piece flopping about as you saw. For a right hander, you place your left knee on the longer piece which is to the left of the cut supported on two horses. Your left hand also holds the workpiece, initially on the large side, and then as you approach the end of the cut you reach over the saw and hold the off-cut. Your knee is a critical part of the whole endeavour.
Mike G wrote:No, absolutely not. That would leave the the bigger piece flopping about as you saw. For a right hander, you place your left knee on the longer piece which is to the left of the cut supported on two horses. Your left hand also holds the workpiece, initially on the large side, and then as you approach the end of the cut you reach over the saw and hold the off-cut. Your knee is a critical part of the whole endeavour.
Woodbloke wrote:......... if the wood is too big to hold with your left hand as you complete the cut, it's liable to go crashing to the floor so I usually find some other way of supporting the off-cut; makes for a cleaner cut as you don't get that nasty jagged splinter sticking out as the wood breaks - Rob
Cabinetman wrote:That’s assuming that your floors are level of course, out of any of us Mike I’m sure yours will be.
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