RE: Japanese LN

Here is the handle detail

HC Sakman

>Note that handle still not yet shaped to its final state.

Chico...

Actually.... *LINK*

HC Sakman

>....this is where the blade came from. I chopped off the handle, reversed and drilled.

Chico...


blade source

Re: Actually....

Derek Cohen (in Perth Australia)

>So Chico, you are not pulling the saw, you are pushing it Western style? Essentially, you have a Western saw again (just different teeth style).

Regards from Perth

Derek

Nope..

HC Sakman

>I am pulling it Derek, it's not a push saw. It's a pull saw with Western handle. It feels weird and kind of good at the same time. it works good but I think I prefer the straight handle of a pull saw though. It was an experimental attempt and I'll leave it at that.

Chico...

It does what I like about the pull saws the most,

HC Sakman

>which is: being able to saw off a minute amount of material wherever that cut might be. Most Western saws would just skip and fall off the edge. (I guess there's a possibility to master the Western saw and do the same task, but it doesn't seem easy to do.) Pull saws are very good at doing that. Good ones work even 10X better.

Chico...

Re: Actually....

William Duffield, on the Cohansey

>It's not a circular saw with a forked tail. It's reciprocal. You have to both push and pull. This is true for both Occidental and Oriental hand saws. With an Oriental, you might have to pull a bit harder than pull, and vice versa with an Occidental saw, but the common advise to newcomers to hand saws is to "let the saw do the work". No matter the rake of the teeth, the shape of the handle of an Occidental saw is a lot more ergonomically designed for sawing than a thin, straight stick wrapped with rattan.

A bowsaw, OTOH, is designed to be easily either pushed or pulled with either the handles or the arms. While one handle is usually a bit longer than the other, I think that might be a visual crutch to indicate which way the blade is mounted.