let's go around here holiday was extended slightly longer than I thought it would
be but we're back and I thought today would discuss why builders have so many hand saws
look at that I thought today would be as good a day as any to talk about Hansel's because I
have my latest hand so here courtesy of guest on prana tools you remember him from this video
over here since I put that video up he had a lot of people buying tools off him so as a thank you
he sent me this for Christmas thank you so your religion so why would a builder have a couple
of crazy-looking Hansel's like this well these are the GU kosher razor sores think they're called Rio
B or Rio Rio BER anyway it's Japanese and it means the blade has two saw lines and each one does a
different job one side has a cross cut blade here and the other side has a rip cut blade cross cut
for going across the grain and rip cut for going with the green no the new one he gave me a sticker
so it's better for cutting framing and larger timber well this one here is thinner maybe more
of a woodworking so than a.m. and a builders saw that's how I'm going to use anyway steel is strong
and tension but weak in compression that's why if you don't have much experience and you try to use
one of these if you get it off-center a little bit it's very easy for the blade to go like that but
with the Japanese saw the blade is switched around so the cut stroke is when you're pulling the soil
rather than pushing the saw and the tension that the blade is then M keeps you from going like that
now one of my other japanese-style sores is this one here by silky it's called the silky wood boy
as you can see here it has a spline on the back of it now that spline helps to keep the blade
rigid say dovetails have you're making like a drawer or some sort of cabinetry this keeps it
nice and straight as you can see the blade here is very fine I think this was my first Japanese
carpentry saw I started getting into them after watching some my carpenter actually I'm sure a
lot of you have heard of and since making that switch I have had no regrets now this one here
is very thin so you're able to bend like so the thing that makes it unique though is the blade
is very flat so if you look super close on this so here you can see the teeth are going side to
side ever so slightly now this helps with the cut but the downside is you use this saw to cut
something flush whatever you're cutting at flush against will then be scratched up by
those side to side teeth whereas this circuit here is flat so if you've got a dhow sticking
out that you've glued and it's dried and you go to cut it flush you can do it with this saw and
not worry about scratching the surface of the timber that's a great idea a lot of people will
know what this is but in case you do not this is basically for cutting tricky things calling
it like circles and getting in areas where the back of a traditional saw might get in the way
you can cut something all the way over here and still have the outside of that piece in here does
that make any sense now last and some would say least the European handsaw I still like these I
still buy them all the time every now and then you need to cut timber that is heavily treated
or as wet and you just need something that would hack away at it and that is why I always have one
of these in my van so to recap why óbuda has so many hand saws think about the different jobs the
hassles need to do this is your cross-cutting rip cutting fine timber all-purpose pull so this is
your cross-cutting rip cutting harder timber framing timber pull saw this is your flush
cutting don't scratch the surface pull bindi beautiful little handy flush cut saw and this
is your spline hold the blade straight straight little Tim but your coping saw for doing copse
and your European hand sole for those jobs that you don't want to run all the other source with
now this was by no means their comprehensive guide to hand saws it's just some of the hand
saws that I use so if you have other suggestions for hand saws that a builder might find useful
I'm always came to use new ones so comment below without further ado why don't we do some carpentry
oh it's plenty hot 28 degrees Celsius right in the middle of summer it was far more comfortable
at the beach hotel you know a lot of you guys will recognize this job and for those who don't
this is my mum's place and we're officially in year three of this dick three years 2017-2018
and now that it's January the 10th 2019 I've put everything to one side we've got a couple
jobs that we need to be at but I am doing this until it's done so what I'm gonna do is put
[ __ ] around there I'm going to replace this with that stuff and finish it once and for all
look at all this carnage all that carnage was a necessary in order
to finish the dick all of this is done we replaced all that because it was bouncing
and yeah now it looks great and now you can boom stand on there come up here and
then it gives very bright and then come up here up here 100% now three years in
the making dick it's done it's all done now just gotta clamp this bloody mess
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like whatever ones on offer so many favors yeah oh my god