"Upscale" wrote in
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A query about all these suggestions of hand saws. The OP was talking
about doing flooring with a quiet saw. Can hand saws, even Dozuki hand
saws cut a floor board so straight at 90° and so finely finished that
it's going to mate perfectly with an adjacent board? I've got to be
honest here, I'm really sceptical.

Dozuki's and other "free" hand saws take some getting used to for proper
technique. The Craftsman saw I mentioned has a "captive" blade; there are
four vertical posts, and a guide on the saw fits over the blades and onto
the posts. Mine came with lots of hold-down and stop-block clamps. When I
first got mine, I made a jig that would allow me to do resawing. *THAT*
will make you break out in a sweat!