On Jun 15, 2006, at 12:33 PM, Eric Dahlman wrote:

> 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?

You may not be using the right kind of saw. :)

http://www.hyperkitten.com/woodworking/resaw.php3

-- 
_Deirdre                                             http://deirdre.net

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Eric Dahlman wrote:

> 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?

Search the archives for  "Frame Saw", and go wild.  Add Tom Holloway to 
your search, and somewhere will point to a tutorial with pix.  A recent 
post or 10 will show many of the frame saws out there. 

-- 
Kirk Eppler, summer's here in Half Moon Bay, CA
Process Development Engineering
Eppler.Kirk@g...

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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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Welcome, Eric, you sound like you will fit in here quite well. Pull up a
rocker and have a lemonade.

As to Galoot resawing, here is a list of links that cover standard bow
saws and frame resaws, which is the correct tool.

http://www.galootcentral.com/modules.php?name=Web_Links&l_op=viewlink&ci
d 

While I haven't tried it yet (need to build myself a frame resaw, after
I finish the new pot handles, after I finish LOML's file cabinet, after
I finish the basement family room, after I finish... well, you get the
idea) - anyway, while I haven't tried it yet, I think that it would be a
serene, contemplative task, much like ripping with a Diston D-8
thumbhole rip saw, which is one of my favorite pastimes.

Happy surfing,

Rob in Peoria
http://www.galootcentral.com/modules.php?name=Web_Links
As recommended by Popular Woodworking's Christopher Schwarz

Wood shavings on the floor! Wood shavings on the floor!

:-----Original Message-----
:From: oldtools-bounces@r... [mailto:oldtools-
:bounces@r...] On Behalf Of Eric Dahlman
:Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 2:34 PM
:To: oldtools@r...
:Subject: [OldTools] Introduction and a resawing question
:
:Howdy,
:
: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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Eric Dahlman wrote:
> 
> 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?

The other guys have pointed you at the best information on this.

I will merely point out that resawing is one of the hardest
things to do "galoot style", apart from artistic carving, which
is easy to "do", but difficult to do well.

If you're not already pretty "down pat" with other sawing,
I wouldn't try resawing.

   BugBear
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> I will merely point out that resawing is one of the hardest
> things to do "galoot style", apart from artistic carving, which
> is easy to "do", but difficult to do well.
>
> If you're not already pretty "down pat" with other sawing,
> I wouldn't try resawing.
>
>   BugBear
>

That is contrary to my experience.  My hand cut joinery leaves something 
to be desired, and my rips while straight, are far from perpendicular to 
the face of the board.

http://www.oldtoolsshop.com/Galoots/bMullin/galootmadetools/index.html#FrameSaw

Eric, one of the recent discussions contains a link to the frame saw I 
just completed.

And if you'd like to ping me offline I'd interest in hearing where 
abouts you are in Minnesota and what you do as a glorified typist.  I'm 
also a glorified typist at a contract medical device development firm 
here in St. Paul.

Ben
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Howdy All,

Thanks for the great info and the welcome to the porch.  I have  
looked at a number of the links and I was attacking this problem of  
resawing using the wrong tool.  The approach with a frame saw really  
makes sence, I just could not see keeping the cut sufficiently  
straight using a bow saw as I would have to rotate the blade, then  
torque it a bit to keep it cutting true (at least in my mind's eye  
that is the force that would be needed.) A frame saw is the right  
tool, and that makes it real simple.

Now the tragic thing is that we used to have a couple of frame saws  
in the family that were lost when certain estates were liquidated (I  
was too many states away to have any say in the matter, dagnabbit!)   
I certainly will be making one soon.

On the old saw front I remember one of those old frame saws had  
multiple parallel blades, like 3 or 4.   You could saw 4 boards at  
once, I have to admit that it is too long ago to really remember the  
scale but it could have been meant for two men or attached to some  
sort of mechanized doohicky.

Finally,  Sorry for the delay in getting back to this email, real  
life reared it ugly head and demanded my attention.

-Eric

On Jun 16, 2006, at 7:21 AM, Robert A. Weber wrote:

> Welcome, Eric, you sound like you will fit in here quite well. Pull  
> up a
> rocker and have a lemonade.
>
> As to Galoot resawing, here is a list of links that cover standard bow
> saws and frame resaws, which is the correct tool.
>
> http://www.galootcentral.com/modules.php? 
> name=Web_Links&l_op=viewlink&ci
> d 
>
> While I haven't tried it yet (need to build myself a frame resaw,  
> after
> I finish the new pot handles, after I finish LOML's file cabinet,  
> after
> I finish the basement family room, after I finish... well, you get the
> idea) - anyway, while I haven't tried it yet, I think that it would  
> be a
> serene, contemplative task, much like ripping with a Diston D-8
> thumbhole rip saw, which is one of my favorite pastimes.
>
> Happy surfing,
>
> Rob in Peoria
> http://www.galootcentral.com/modules.php?name=Web_Links
> As recommended by Popular Woodworking's Christopher Schwarz
>
> Wood shavings on the floor! Wood shavings on the floor!
>
>
> :-----Original Message-----
> :From: oldtools-bounces@r... [mailto:oldtools-
> :bounces@r...] On Behalf Of Eric Dahlman
> :Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 2:34 PM
> :To: oldtools@r...
> :Subject: [OldTools] Introduction and a resawing question
> :
> :Howdy,
> :
> :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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