Popular Woodworking 2006-10 № 157, страница 53
Almost-forgottenHandsaw TricksHow to clear your line of sawdust without blowing yourself dizzy. Plus, learn how to mark accurate 90° and 45° lines without a square. About 35 years ago I was using a handsaw in what I considered the usual method: Cut, blow the sawdust off my pencil line and then cut some more. The foreman on the job was watching me work and he came over and stopped me. He said he was told many years ago of a way to cut with a handsaw so you didn't have to blow the dust off the line. He didn't show me the method because he said he'd never been able to do it himself, but the basic idea was as follows: You cut on the down-stroke and lift the saw a bit out of the kerf on the up-stroke. By developing this slightly orbital stroke, most of the dust falls on the floor. After practicing this orbital stroke for a while I noticed something else that my foreman had not mentioned. The small amount of dust left on the surface of the work was pulled away from the cut line, like the wake of a boat in water. This is really neat to see, and I think it is caused by the regular, rhythmic vibra- by Carl Bilderback Carl is a lifelong professional carpenter in LaPorte, Ind, and a tool collector. 64 Popular Woodworking October 2006 |
