{"id":10,"date":"2006-01-06T19:38:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-07T02:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/wordpress\/?p=10"},"modified":"2025-05-30T17:07:27","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T21:07:27","slug":"the-saw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/2006\/01\/06\/the-saw\/","title":{"rendered":"The Saw"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is what saw I was using on Monday, the one I used to cut my hand. It’s a Spear & Jackson<\/a> hardpoint saw, twenty-two inches long and 10 pts (meaning 9 points-per-inch), further described thusly:<\/p>\n

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For the fastest cutting across the grain on both the forward and return strokes with a coarse finish.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Note that it was my understanding at the time that it was a rip<\/em> saw. That’s what it said on the tag from the store where I bought it and that’s what I was doing with it. Ripping.<\/p>\n

Not that it matters that much, really, but the other saw I had bought that morning was the one I should have been using. Although it was designated by the store tag as a crosscut saw, in actuality, according to Spear & Jackson, it’s a universal saw, for both ripping and crosscutting. More importantly, it doesn’t cut on the return stroke. And it produces a standard, not coarse, finish.<\/p>\n

Let’s just go ahead and stipulate that I would have cut my hand anyway. Likely, though, the cut wouldn’t have been so severe, is maybe the point here.<\/p>\n

But if we’re looking to assign any blame, it’d still have to be all mine mine all mine. Although the store tag said “rip,” the cardboard cover, on the saw I was using for ripping, clearly says “fleam” on it. And of course, rip saws have no fleam. Crosscut saws do.<\/p>\n

Duh<\/em>.<\/p>\n

So, while technically true that neither saw I had that day was a rip saw, the universal saw would have been a smarter choice over the fleam saw.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is what saw I was using on Monday, the one I used to cut my hand. It’s a Spear & Jackson hardpoint saw, twenty-two inches long and 10 pts (meaning 9 points-per-inch), further described thusly: For the fastest cutting across the grain on both the forward and return strokes with a coarse finish. Note … Continue reading The Saw<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-woodworking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1463,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions\/1463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}