When you have set the teeth goes side to side.
An unset blade the teeth are full width and at most wave or are in line.
The hacksaw blade is one example of a wave blade.

The teeth on crosscut are triangles. Have sharp teeth and are not full
metal.

The teeth on a rip saw are full width of the blade.

Martin

On 6/3/2016 12:17 PM, Larry Blanchard wrote:
On Thu, 02 Jun 2016 21:01:41 -0500, Martin Eastburn wrote:

How old are you steve ? I've been using rip and crosscut since 1952.
This is before all of the fancy power junk that splinter the wood.

Martin,in your initial post in this thread you said:

"Rip saws have teeth that are inline without any set. Wax the saw and let
it rip!"

That "without any set" is what prompted the replies. Maybe you meant
otherwise, but if not your experience seems lacking :-).