In addition to the specific features of each wood species, sawing methods can create a wide variety of visual effects*. The most common methods are plain sawing, quarter sawing, and rift sawing.

If we continue sawing boards off the faces of the quartered log, we get rift sawn boards, which are differentiated by the fact that the growth rings on the outer edge of the log are different from those …

Topics covered in the series include: sawing lumber, using the quarter scale, saw blade maintenance, introduction to drying lumber, determining moisture content of wood, wood drying defects, methods …

Different sawing tools are applied for the different requirements in manual woodworking and are divided into the groups of frame saws and frameless saws. − Frame saws are applicable for nearly all …

Guide the saw blade vertically along the scribed line when sawing curves and sawing with the grain with the ripping saw, otherwise guide it along the scribed line at an acute angle to the surface of the …

For splitting or edging timber, for cutting lamellae on horizontal and vertical spindles. Softwood and hardwood, wet, frozen, dry or long fibre materials. Edging, single blade, multi blade sawblades as …

In this book Ian Bradley provides detailed guidance on the use and maintenance of all types of saw, both hand and mechanical, from the humble junior hacksaw to circular and bandsaws, in the …