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Here’s a short clip of me trying to use the maebiki. This is the second cut that I tried to make with it, which is the cut that runs along the glue line of this cutoff from my workbench leg glue up.

Most videos that I have found of Japanese sawyers using maebikis usually have them sawing horizontally, not vertically as I am doing here. I make no claim as to the correctness or the quality of my technique. I did notice that most of the pulling is done with my legs and body, not my arms. And it should be noted that towards the end of the video, the sawing gets a bit smoother as I figure out the ideal angle for the saw and this piece of wood.

You should also be able to see the shavings almost being shot out of the kerf by the teeth of this saw. That was very cool to see in person.

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  • 6:09 am  8 Dec 2011
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