Popular Woodworking Magazine » Sawing Techniques http://www.popularwoodworking.com Woodworking advice, woodworking plans, woodworking projects and woodworking blogs Mon, 20 May 2013 13:35:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 My Favorite Band Saw Bladehttp://www.popularwoodworking.com/tools/my-favorite-band-saw-blade http://www.popularwoodworking.com/tools/my-favorite-band-saw-blade#comments Thu, 10 May 2012 17:12:39 +0000 Christopher Schwarz http://www.popularwoodworking.com/?p=164901
My Favorite Band Saw Blade

While I do most of my work by hand, there are two machines that I refuse to do without: a thickness planer and an old Delta 14” band saw. These two machines remove the drudgery from reducing boards in thickness and long rips. So I baby these two machines. When it comes to band saw … Read more »

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Get Lubed Up in 19th-century Style

Ever since Roy Underhill wrote about the joys of mutton tallow as a tool lubricant in Popular Woodworking Magazine in the August 2010 issue, readers have been asking where to purchase the stuff. Or, even more alarming, how to render it themselves. The good news is that Lee Valley Tools has started to carry McQueen’s … Read more »

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]]> http://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/chris-schwarz-blog/get-lubed-up-in-19th-century-style/feed 15 New: ‘Mastering Hand Tools: Basic Skills for Balanced Woodworking’http://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/chris-schwarz-blog/new-%e2%80%98mastering-hand-tools-basic-skills-for-balanced-woodworking%e2%80%99 http://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/chris-schwarz-blog/new-%e2%80%98mastering-hand-tools-basic-skills-for-balanced-woodworking%e2%80%99#comments Sun, 01 Apr 2012 20:47:47 +0000 Christopher Schwarz http://www.popularwoodworking.com/?p=150141
New: ‘Mastering Hand Tools: Basic Skills for Balanced Woodworking’

If you read this blog, you are probably interested in hand tools. And if you are at the beginning of your journey, this blog entry is for you. Popular Woodworking Magazine commissioned me to make a series of 10 to-the-point videos about hand tools that try to strip away the confusion so you can get … Read more »

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Moxon's saw from "Mechanick Exercises"

Anyone who has ever read Joseph Moxon’s “Mechanick Exercises” (1678) has puzzled over his pictures of saws. There are some frame saws, a whipsaw and a fancy handled saw without a back that Moxon, as far as I know, doesn’t discuss in his text. That fancy saw has always caught my eye. What was it … Read more »

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]]> http://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/chris-schwarz-blog/new-sawmaker-builds-ancient-saws/feed 10 Tweaking an Over-set Coping Sawhttp://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/chris-schwarz-blog/tweaking-an-over-set-coping-saw http://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/chris-schwarz-blog/tweaking-an-over-set-coping-saw#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:59:43 +0000 Christopher Schwarz http://www.popularwoodworking.com/?p=126911
Tweaking an Over-set Coping Saw

When cutting dovetails, I’ve always cleared out most of the waste with a coping saw. Why? I learned it that way in 1993 and am faster with the coping saw than I am with a chisel. Even though I’ve been dovetailing for almost 20 years, I’m always looking for small things to improve my speed … Read more »

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Another Solid $10 (and Change) Saw

It sounds like a difficult question, but it’s really not. “I really want a Wenzloff & Sons handsaw, but I am a (graduate student, hobo, philosophy major) and cannot afford it. Can you recommend a saw that works almost as well but costs only $10?” Yes, I can. For many years I have been recommending … Read more »

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The Saw Painters' Mother Ship

Attention woodworkers in and around the Great Falls, Montana, area: Have you noticed a curious lack of vintage handsaws in your flea markets and antique malls? Well there’s a reason that greater Great Falls is the black hole of vintage saws. The saw painters have made a 22’-high mechanical shrine to the craft using 208 … Read more »

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For Accurate & Heavy Sawing, Try a ‘Shangie’

One of the great joys of reading old woodworking magazines is that they includes lots of tidbits that aren’t in old woodworking books – such as the one I found last night about the “Shangie.” What’s a Shangie? It’s a shopmade device that converts a typical 26” handsaw into a two-man saw that is designed … Read more »

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Report Card: 6 Months Without a Chop Saw

When I reorganized my shop last Spring, I sold a lot of stuff. I sold so much stuff that I was afraid that I was cutting into the bone. I sold my routers. My router table. My sliding compound miter saw. And lots more (a biscuit joiner, sanders and shop vacuums to name a few). … Read more »

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]]> http://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/chris-schwarz-blog/report-card-6-months-without-a-chop-saw/feed 36 Get a Consistent Set on Your Saw With Paperhttp://www.popularwoodworking.com/article/get-a-consistent-set-on-your-saw-with-paper http://www.popularwoodworking.com/article/get-a-consistent-set-on-your-saw-with-paper#comments Sun, 11 Sep 2011 01:30:23 +0000 Christopher Schwarz http://www.popularwoodworking.com/?p=109121 Whenever I teach a sawing class, I typically reduce the set of students’ saws using a metal file. And when I do this, I’m also amazed at how many times I’m also filing an errant tooth that is sticking out beyond its brethren. But I can say with all honesty that I have never had … Read more »

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