Resawing by Hand
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Just made four three foot long cuts through 4 1/2″ thick laminated oak. Took me a good 4-5 hours and many biscuits even with a freshly sharpened 7TPI saw.
Really puts into perspective how hard the workmen of old worked. Pity theres no handheld electric machine that can easily make cuts like this. A jigsaw would really struggle I think.
That’s where the band saw can be useful for the donkey work. It’s the power tool that sees the most use since I’ve moved to mostly hand tools.
At times I had to resaw by hand when the board is too wide for my bandsaw. I made an interesting discovery, the handsaw that I bought as designed for a rip cut was actually designed for cross cutting. I never filed a saw before but I did recut the teeth on my saw and there was a big improvement. (My eyesight is not great.)
I agree with the ehisey. On wood that hard the bigger teeth really makes a difference.