Larry Jaques wrote:
On Wed, 23 Mar 2016 17:24:55 -0500, "Terry Coombs"
wrote:

Jim Wilkins wrote:
"Terry Coombs" wrote in message
...
Several years ago , while browsing in one of the tourist trap
secondhand stores here , I bought a saw tooth setting device for
hand saws because I just knew someday I'd need it . Well , today I
needed it . I have some pocket cuts to make on the support timbers
(6x6's)for our new kitchen , and they need to be pretty precise .
Too deep for the circular saw , chainsaw is no way going to do it ,
and the recip saw has a tendency to wander on deep cuts ... so
today I tuned up a crosscut and a rip hand saw . Reset the teeth
and sharpened them with a tricorner file and now we're cookin' .
I'll likely use the smallest chainsaw to rough the pocket in ,
cutting a quarter inch long of the mark so I'll only have a sliver
to trim off .
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Snag

When I notch beams into columns I clamp the beam to the column,
clamp blocks of scrap 2x4 above and below it, remove the beam and
guide a thin Japanese type pull saw in along the 2x4. This puts the
saw kerf within the mortice space. Then I hog out enough with a
chainsaw to make chiseling the rest easy. Typically the fit is
close enough to pound together with my fist.

--jsw

I useta have a nice Japanese (originally from Japan!) pull saw .
Then one of my coworkers decided it would work good to cut off some
protruding nails ... and he knew damn well what was going to happen
. Let's just say he wasn't my friend - and he did this while I was
not there .

Did you show him how to rivet his nuts together the next time you saw
him?

That would have had ne branded as a racist ...

--
Snag