"Frank McVey" wrote in message
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"RichardS" noaccess@invalid wrote in message

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yes, the reason you're finding it difficult is because you're trying to
use
the saw in a western way, and the technique for Japanese ripsaws is
fundamentally different, and you use it like this...."

Could well be. Japanese craftsmen squat or kneel at their work, I'm told,
so
if the plank to be ripped is on sawhorses or their equivalent, he could
well
be working from underneath.


yup, this is something that I heard about as well.

I've also read somewhere that the majority of tradional japanese woodworking
would be done whilst seated, and this would give rise to markedly different
techniques to western woodworking.

I'm scouring the web trying to find confirmation of this, but, with the
profusion of catalogue and directory sites being returned, google just isn't
as useful as it once was !!!


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