are you ****ed I didn't fall for your ruse on Friday?

dave

Hoyt Weathers wrote:

RichardS wrote:

snip, snip


Have you ever tried turning the board over, mark it, and then cut it?
Or am I missing something?

Presumably sawdust covers the line if it is on top since the saw cuts on

the

pull stroke.


That's not really the problem, though it wouldn't help. Have lungs, can
blow dust away... :-)

The problem it seems to me is that if I'm cutting at an oblique angle then
the saw teeth under the board will be ahead of he ones above the board,
which seems intrinsically more difficult to follow the cut line.


Oblique angle to what? Which cut direction - towards you or away from you?

I get the sinking feeling that you are cutting AWAY from you for some unstated
reason. Is this what you are doing? If so, why? Everyone I know cuts toward
themselves. Cutting a board is not rocket science.

Assume you hold the saw at about 45 degrees or less to the board to be cut. Also
assume there is a cut line on the top side of the board. Also assume you pull the
saw towards you as you adhere to the cut line and make the rip cut. If all of those
assumptions are TRUE, then the saw teeth UNDER the board could NOT be ahead of the
ones ABOVE the board. No way!

The word *ahead* could have two or more meanings I suppose. One would be related to
position. Another could be related to time. I assume time is not a factor in this.

Why not just play around with it on some crappie scrap? No harm done for sure.

Hoyt W.