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This is my technique for resawing thin boards from a chunck of wood using a frame saw (republished here in this format only for clarity):
First, set your marking gauge slightly more than your desired size (10 millimiters in this case)…
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Set your marking gauge
Mark your gauge line along the both faces of your chunck of wood…
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Mark your gauge line
Run your line also across the grain in both sides…
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Run your line across the grain
With a chisel cut an small dent in the corner of your saw line…
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Cut a small dent
The magic begins now! Use an inexpensive frame saw to cut a perfect slice of wood following your vertical gauge mark. First, start at the front corner sawing until you reach the opposite corner…
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Using a frame saw
Now saw vertically until you reach about the half of your block of wood. Then flip it and start from the oposite corner. Happily the two lines will meet…
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Using a frame saw
Then you are here: your panel slide cuted exceptionally straight. The frame saw allows an easy control leveling your cut using both hands…
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Your thin panel cut
I build this small frame saw two years ago based on an engraved of “L’Art du Menuisier” of Andre Roubo. Here you can see the artifact disassembled showing its parts. Very simple construction, very effective, and only costs me five bucks by the wide saw hack blade, the long carriage bolt and two small pins…
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The frame saw disasembled
Finally, you only need to plane your piece to remove the saw marks using a thin face planing stop…
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Removing the saw marks
Finish the surface with a smoothing plane and you are done.
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Smoothing your surfaces
NOTE: Excuse my poor english and the low quality images.
Best regards from Catalonia,
–Óscar