RichardS wrote:

"Hoyt Weathers" wrote in message
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Mitch Berkson wrote:

Hoyt Weathers wrote:

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.

Mitch Berkson

The simple solution to that is just intermittently blow away the dust and
keep on
sawing. I do that all the time on most cuts with a Jap pull saw. It
doesn't take a
rocket scientist to cut a board with a pull saw.


true. I am specifically talking about the technique for ripping a board
here, and my puzzlement as to why I appear to be experiencing such
difficulty.

--
Richard Sampson

email me at
richard at olifant d-ot co do-t uk

A light bulb just turned on. Perchance, are you sitting in the Japanese position
BELOW the board when you try to cut it? [ I would never do that because saw dust
would get all over me. ] If so, why isn't the cut line also facing you on that side
of the board? If it is, then what is the problem in following the cut line?

If the cut line is on TOP of the board and you are sawing from BELOW the board, then
I agree with you that the cut could be off the marked cut line.

Then my question becomes: Is there a particular reason why you wish to cut that way?
To each his own I suppose.

Perhaps I am still not getting your point.

Hoyt W.