It's Taken A Year
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It’s taken a year but I can finally crosscut straight and square. I had a board about 12 feet long, that was good for nothing but firewood. I marked it out every 3″ I crosscut everyone straight and square. 🙂
The biggest problem for me is being right handed and left eye dominant, but I found after lots of practice, I finnaly found how to stand and hold the saw, for that magic cut.
One happy soon to be a woodworker. 😉
12 December 2013 at 2:11 pm #23707Straight and square? What is that? LoL. Just kidding.
Good job! I get close most of the time, but not every time. Most of my crosscut need to be cleaned up by a plane.
It does take a lot of practice to make perfect. Hopefully, those who are struggling can be encouraged by post like this. Thanks for sharing.
12 December 2013 at 3:21 pm #23718I’m the opposite, left handed with right master eye. I got a scrap 2X10 a while back and did the same thing. It helped a lot but when I stopped practicing I lost the knack. Time to get going again.
The way I see it either I saw them straight or I get practice planing end grain flat. Win/Win.
12 December 2013 at 7:16 pm #23728The way to really test your skill is to have no lines then test with square 😉 That’s what I was made to do as a lad on 4″ x 2″ using hand saw.
It is surprising how well you can do.I suffer from the same problem, right handed, left eye dominant. At least, that is what I’m going with! lol I can cut square when the line/knife wall is on the left side of the saw blade. However, sometimes I can get a death grip on the saw, unknowingly, and cut on an inward slope. Now, I just get it close and plane square. I’ve gotten fairly good on squaring off end grain without a shooting board.
Congratulations Ken, fortunately I’ve been relatively comfortable hand sawing square and straight, but when it comes to cutting anything on an angle I get totally discombobulated. Making those angular cuts for the wall clock mitres took me the better part of an afternoon. If I ever get to making the bench stool I’ll need half a cord of pine just to make the angular cross rails..and that cut on top of the legs Paul demonstrates has me completely baffled.
Ken, you just don’t know how encouraging it is. To read this. I just figured I would not be able to do it. I picked up a Vintage stanley miter box on the cheap and it works when I have a cut that has tribe dead square. But this post lets me know that practice will pay off. I have no idea what eye is dominant, but currently. My right hand is not friendly for a right angle.
Sandy, Jay, Denise thanks. I think its all about finding what works for you, and once you find it practice till it becomes so natural you do it without thinking.
Denise have a look here …….. https://woodworkingmasterclasses.com/discussions/topic/eye-dominance/
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