Getting Straight Rip Cuts with a Japanese Saw

In this video I show that you don't need a fancy bench to cut a straight rip bench, you just need a set of low saw horses and a ryoba saw

Music by Myhzy

[PoodleKing]

This helped me so much! I was trying to rip from one side with the board clamped vertically to the work bench. I couldnt get more than 6 inch before i was completely off track. Flipping frequently helps even everything out! Thank you!

[rickreed]

That is great. Can you show how to resaw a board?

[darrenmacmartin]

Great work Josh, thank you for sharing this.

[GoldryBluszco]

your videos are very inspiring! I'm slowly getting back into woodworking, my grandpa was an old japanese guy with a big workshop, so I inherited the idea of doing things like this peacefully and by hand. Those saw horses looks like a nice lil project.

[mattchew]

Thanks for posting this video. For your Japanese sawhorses, it appears your cross beam is relatively tall. How deep did you cut out of each piece to link together? Any wobble? Anything you would do different?

[kle]

I've seen lots of videos on Japanese saws as of late. I noticed sometimes you can purchase saws specifically listed as " for hardwood". Is this important if you are cutting into hardwoods, or is it ok to buy the "regular" listed Japanese saws? And can you use to cut into softwoods to with these "hardwood" saws. I don't see a lot of YouTube videos mention the specifically designed hardwood Japanese saws or if you have to go through the trouble of buying it specifically to cut into hardwoods. Your thoughts? thx

[liuming]

I tried kataba saw on many tropical hard wood, most of the time it won't go straight. I end up using western handsaw or Roubo style frame saw for resawing.

[JoshIbbotson]

So i made a bit of a hilarious spelling mistake, first one to comment it wins

[piworower]

i would like to see a planing and chiseling version of this too.

i was planning on giving you shit for not talking, but you speak pretty clearly with your hands. but some text or captions would be cool too.

anyways, you got your own life, thanks for the vid.

[JoshIbbotson]

Also sorry about the up and down sound here

[HdtvTh]

I would start by getting a better saw, if you need to flip the board so the saw doesn't wander on the other side the saw is not the right size or set correctly, if the saw has impulse hardened teeth then it's probably trash.

[patbassman]

Too slow, ILL stick with my western saw for ripping, thanks all the same.