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If you follow the method in Paul Sellers’ video, your accuracy depends mostly on the saw and the wood. I was quite astonished, how accurate I was with a huge frame saw, slightly over 2 tpi and 3 mm thick (see image). Speed isn’t so bad on smaller stock, if you have a real ripcut saw. The “universal” saws can be used, but they aren’t half that effective. It seems, that rip-cut saws are more effective on cross-cut, than cross-cut saws on rip-cut. The cheapest effective saw would be a frame saw (just another video from Paul Sellers) with a rip-cut blade.
I have a big piece of wood here, that I want to cut into boards, about 5″ thick and almost 10″ wide. I did a test cut with a huge frame saw and it wasn’t too bad. Unfortunately, I didn’t know the resawing video from Paul Sellers at that time, and I got a light curve on one side and a bad one on the other side (the one that I could not see while sawing) – see picture.
As for the allowance to make for thickness, you need to test yourself. I usually waste more wood while planing (not exactly experienced either).
Dieter
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