Howdy,

In my day job I am a computer scientist who works for a small R&D  
business in Minnesota, a glorified typist in many respects.  I have  
always had an affinity to working with my hands as a release from the  
sit-in-one-place-thinking style of my regular responsibilities.  I  
also used to tinker with tools even older than those favored here, I  
made arrowheads and ground stone tools.  (One of my favorites is a  
stone hammer I made and my grandfather hafted, it is a great  
conversation piece.  You have to make sure that you don't tell people  
what the handle is made out of while they are holding it though.  The  
words "dried bull penis" have the oddest effect on some people, go  
figure.)

Now that I am finally settled down and have the potential to gather a  
respectable shop together I have decided to move on to not only iron  
age tools but even some of the early products of the industrial  
revolution.  (And I have to admit that I like my cabinet saw, but we  
will not talk of such things in present company.)

This brings me to my question and that is how does a galoot go about  
resawing?  In particular I want to take a board that is approximately  
3 feet long, 10 inches wide and 2 inches thick and cut it into  
approximately 1/2 inch thick boards that I can then do a book match  
with.  I just can't imagine how to do the resawing with just a bowsaw  
and my poor technique.  Is there a trick or a tool that I need to  
learn about to do this properly?

Thanks a lot!
-Eric
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