I’ve been busy and haven’t bought (or built) any saw parts yet but I did find this photo. It’s a two man crosscut saw:
This is a giant Frankenstein’s Monster scale version of my little buck saw. As you can see, it’s not like a regular handsaw. The cutters are in pairs, one cuts the wood fiber on the right of the kerf, the other cuts the fiber on the left of the kerf. Like two little knives that slice the wood but don’t remove it. Then the rakers come along. Those are the v shaped things. The pointy end of the raker, whichever one is moving forward, chisels out the already separated wood fiber. The very very deep gullet gives space for the resulting sawdust to ride all the way to the edge of the log without gumming things up. The cutter teeth and rakers work identically on the pull and the push stroke. It’s a bi-directional saw.
A normal handsaw has teeth like image. (I have no idea where this image came from, it just emerged from GoDuckGo image search… if it’s your image please tell me.) These teeth only cut one way:
Because nothing in life is simple, there are a few old timey saws that cut like the two man saw above. Check out this bad boy:
Holy shit! It’s sawzilla!
By the way, there’s a dude who’s selling that saw. I don’t know anything about his business other than he has several variants of sawzilla and thus he’s cool.
the holes in the blade are for attaching a handle to make it either a one or two man saw. Rear hole 1 man front two man.
I checked out his website. My learning for the day: saws have accessories.
I was disappointed to see not one pearl necklace. Or lipstick. But I guess that makes sense if saws are considered a man utility. No Johnny Wier saws allowed. (If you didn’t watch ice dancing in the
Olympics, he’s a “guy” who did an actually interesting job of yapping about what was happening. Better to have stuck with hockey and curling, though, as even the women in both sports were more manly.)
There may be a market for carrying cases that could be bedazzled…I didn’t see anything like that on his site. And now I’m off to make some more coffee. I’ve gone shopping so I’m all prepared for the monster snow that’s supposed to inundate Minot. Good thing we’re supposed to go to Fargo during the worst of it. I love driving on snow packed ice, don’t you?
The Ace and the True Value bow saw blades I linked to are raker tooth. Four cutters per raker, and bi-directional. Although I think you’ll find any blade with rakers is bi-directional…
Good to know. I blanked out on that.
You. Bastard. I hate you so much. All this sexy saw talk. Imma chill with the lesbian squerrlz, It’s my safe space.