kochiya sanae and tatara kogasa (touhou) drawn by mizuki_hitoshi

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    Hang in There, Kogasa-san 2867

    It's not that I couldn't build one, it's that I couldn't build one neatly.

    There was about a year between being asked and actually building it, by the way. All sorts of stuff would hold it up; it would get too cold to work outside, or I'd be busy out on tour, stuff like that. (^^;)

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    Barrakketh
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    Japanese saws cut on the pull stroke (western saws cut on the push which lets you put some weight into the cut), so the only time you should be applying any degree of force would have your hand slipping away from the blade.

    And if it were dropped, I'd be applying the same rule you should with a knife: a falling knife has no handle.

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    Tk3997
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    Etnaz said:

    Always wondered about those Japanese saws.

    Isn't the double-edged blade an accident waiting to happen?

    IIRC the two sides normally had different sized teeth back in the day (many still do I think) one coarse and one finer for detail work. Probably quite useful back in the day when these things were made by a blacksmith, but likely less important now that basically anyone can afford multiple separate handsaws.

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