Japanese Hand Saw Exercise

[Charles]

This is a fun exercise I found in a reprint of an old japanese carpentry book.
Chapter 3 "Pony Training" Covers the basics on how to use a japanese handsaw .......
The chapter can be downloaded here
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/37378088/NOKO.pdf
Two pages from chapter 3

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[Chris Hall]

That's interesting - have you tried it yet? If so, let's see some pics!

[Chris Hall]

The full name of the book is:

図解基礎木工具の使い方

Zukai (図解) kiso (基礎) mokkōgu (木工具) tsukai-kata (使い方)

[Charles]

That's interesting - have you tried it yet? If so, let's see some pics!

I tried it once and gave it to my son for Christmas ; ) ....



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[Chris Hall]

Very cute!