How to Choose Hand Saws | Ask This Old House
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- Опубликовано: 28 янв 2017
- Ask This Old House general contractor Tom Silva walks through the various types of hand saws and gives tips on how to utilize them.
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Cost: Varies
Skill Level:
Moderate
Tools:
Hack Saw
Jab Saw
Flush-cutting Saw
Pull Saw
Coping Saw
Miter Saw and Box
Hand Saw
Steps:
1. For cutting through metal, use either a hack saw, which can accept a 10” or 12” blade, or a mini-hack saw, designed for cutting in tight areas. Tom shows off a hack saw to cut through all kinds of metal.
2. To change the blade on a hack saw, loosen the wing nut at the base and extending the bow to your desired length. Insert the new blade and tighten the wing nut. Be sure to put the teeth facing away from the handle.
3. When cutting through drywall, use a jab saw. Place the piercing tip on the drywall and then hit the handle with the palm of your hand to drive it into the drywall. Once the saw is in the material, you can use it to cut.
4. A flush cut saw can cut screws or dowels flush to the material and the handles are often reversible.
5. A double edge pull saw has a flexible blade that can sit flat on material and is can be used to cut trim or casing when patching flooring. Use the flooring as a height gauge. Cut the trim to allow the flooring to slide underneath.
6. A miter saw and miter box can be used for straight cuts and to cut angles.
7. A traditional a hand saw can be used for rip cuts and cross cuts. The more teeth on a blade, the finer the cut will be. Finer blades are used for cross-cutting, coarser blade is used for ripping wood.
8. For the most control, it’s important to hold your body in front of the blade when cutting and line up your shoulder and hand should line up.
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Tommy is a national treasure.
I came to learn about saws, instead, I left with a vast knowledge of sars.
If cutting a bolt or threaded rod, put a nut on it first, then make your cut, then remove the nut. As you back the nut back off of the bolt, it will straighten out the threads.
Jeff Mansfield great tip!
Good call!
Yup. If you dont do that you can also use an angle grinder on a the bolt.
Good to know thanks
Genius man !
thank you mr. silva for sharing thoughts about saws.... ive learned alot.
Great vid! Good thing about using a handsaw for drywall is that you can feel a restriction like a wire or pipe. Seen to many mistakes using sawsall
At 3:31 you don't want to use the saw and cut towards you. Make sure you clamp down anything you are cutting and keep your hands away from the blade.
My heart was pumping when I saw him cut towards him. Would have been a great teachable moment, sadly missed.
were not elementary school kids anymore, the whole "dont cut towards yourself" was meant for kids that dont have control over their own body yet but if your competent, you have way more control. in that case there was almost no danger of him cutting himself, even though it was a really weird and awkward technique just for quick demonstration purposes but if you ever used a paring knife, thats nothing but cutting towards yourself lol
One point I seldom see mentioned about using saws is that the push and the pull strokes require different pressures on the blade. With a western saw, one leans into the push stroke, the productive stroke so that the teeth have a firm pressure against the cut. On the pull stroke, on the non-productive stroke the pressure is lessened so that the teeth ride back gently over the cut.
Once mastered, this technique 1) helps keep saw teeth sharper longer by not rounding the tips, 2) helps keep the cut straighter, less "wonky", by reducing blade vibration and, ultimately, 3) reduces demand on sawyer's energy by making half the strokes less work.
Faster, cleaner, easier.
I had never seen the jab saw or those cut-flush saws before. Pretty clever tools.
And all this time I used my pull saw as a spatula for flipping burgers.
Wow, nice thanks for the tips
thank for your tip and trick
thanks for the lesson.
Most of those cuts can do with reciprocating saw using different blades for each task which is more convenient to buy one power tool and few blade instead loads of hand tools.
4:16 Kevin looking to lose a finger tip there
Thank you!
Your index finger down the side of the handle helps to keep your shoulder/arm in line with your cut.
I love hand sawrs.
Sesame Street for us adults.. Great show.. (Bert and Ernie this episode. The other big guy is Cookie Monster) 😂😂
jon doe I am a grown man and am better than most men, but I don’t have these carpentry skills!
You better not be talking about the beloved Richard Trethewey.
Or Cook!
A lesson from the master.
when cutting in an electrical box with a jab saw, just spin the tip of the jab saw in the corner to 'drill' a starting hole. you can bust up the wall hammering the saw through.
John McIntyre that’s why my personal favourite tool for this is an oscillating saw. So easy to control the plunge depth.
it would be a good ideal when you saw to keep your hands clear from the blade,
one slip and your not going to like what happens.
I must be choosing wisely.
Every saw I own easily cuts my hands.
that pull saw was cool
Very clean and precise cut.
Everybody seems to be raving about those Japanese style pull saws, I like how flexible they are.
I'd be interested in knowing if Tommy uses hard point teeth or if he sharpens his saws?
They are sweet but have to treat them nice.
Japanese pullsaws are not resharpened because the these have a complex geometry and they are very hard; the blades are replaced. These days, I use the pullsaws almost exclusively - less effort and easier to follow a line.
He was using an Irwin Japanese-style pull saw. On that particular model, the finer, cross-cut teeth are impulse-hardened, and because of that would be very difficult to sharpen. IIRC, the teeth on the other edge are for rip cuts, but are NOT impulse-hardened. Hope this helps.
Nice to se a pro This guy knows what his talking about Keep the videos coming please
(except for mistakenly calling the Japanese pullsaw as a backsaw, which is a totally different saw)
Japanese hand saws are awesome
A sar is fun to use man!
Pye tools very good & Tom also good
What brand of adjustable hacksaw are you using? The first saw that you pullout ?
Everything I ever wanted to know about "sores"
Is it me or anytime I do the shoulder to arm straightness trick or try to get a strait cut at all even on metal it’s always off but on a band saw eye ball it’s dead on 😂🤣
good guy kevin, he already knows this stuff but asks for our benefit
What kind of oil is good to put on my handsaw blade so it can cut smoothly
Love Tom Silva, not only because he has my same last name but because he has so much knowledge on what I love, capentry😊
This is the most American RUclips channe ever
They should of discussed the 'left or right handed saw' first.
Makes all the difference
sauuur
and most important is to not waste your money on a cheaply made saw !
I know its WRONG but I always install my hack saw blades backwards = it works great for me
I love how this show is completely unscripted. They just naturally talk to each other. The Jokes feel real because they are real.
lol you won't get that with the other segments
Not true - everything you see is scripted. They have professional story writers that write out the scripts and the directors create the scenes. This show is a very high end production, all things considered.
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Off subject question, is that HEF-CAT license plate a Missouri plate?
Chris J looks like Mississippi
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What's wrong with Kevin? He looks like "I'm sick of this shit"
The Dewalt Jamb saw and the Stanley Mitre Saw they show are total crap. I've owned both. I don't like using my vintage tools out on jobs, does anybody know where we can get new saws that are as good as my old ones?
PartScavenger Lowes....lol jk.
Sciplus.com has some old-school goodies, might find it there.
Lee valley tool
A two stroke Armstrong? :)
Also be sure to never clamp anything down while you're sawing.
Scott Torrance uuuuuhhh.. no you can definitely clamp things down when sawing
B Black he was joking 😂
That Japanese pull saw and a back saw are two completely different things.
A back saw has a stiffening rib along the back of the saw blade. That is a Ryoba with teeth along both edges. A Dozuki would be a Japanese back saw (also cutting on the pull stroke).
I believe that Mr. Silva misspoke when he called the Japanese style saw a backsaw; it is as Orxenhorf said. By the way, I definitely prefer a pull saw with single cutting edge- there's much less chance of nicking a hand or finger.
I'm afraid a far greater transgression has occurred. That saw doesn't have rough and fine cut sides, it has rip and crosscut. So... I am not sure how to feel. lol
Same thing, they cut on the pull... SO WHAT!!! The Japanese aren't from another planet of saw makers!
Out in the sun recently? ;)
Why do many cross cut and rip handsaws have a hole in the end of the blade?
I always figured it was for hanging the saw off a screw or nail in the shop
Probably to allow the user to hang the saw on a nail when finished cutting.
1:37 upsie
A hand saw is convenient for people living, It sawed quickly anything in half.
3:39 ugh the hand in front of the cutting blade with tension towards the resting hand on the plate...
just a hand waiting to be cut... made me cringe
I guess I wasn't the only one.
Just the idiot host doong his thing...
I saw those fingers.
Slap saw
here in Serbia we cut drywall with a knife
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You outdated. Get a drywall router.
Sawr
I worked with a guy who cut anything with just his halitosis breath.
losttribe300
losttribe3001 haha! killing me over here
What? no mention of ripping saws or cross-cutting saws?
Hack sar.
Why wouldn't a plumber use a pipe cutter?
sawr
Hand saws are great but you'd never use them remodel a whole house unless you want to spend years remodeling.
A little weak on the hand saw comparisons...rip and crosscut teeth are totally different.
3:30 Really.. those men are so old and still don't see the danger in what they are doing there.
OMG, he might have cut his finger clean off. ooooo...darn safety police.
OMG, he might have cut his finger clean off. ooooo...darn safety police.
He should have turned it around.
Those men are so old and still have all their fingers. I think they can handle it.
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This the kinda guy that when he talks, you shut up!
lesson learned. the young man looks good, but chubby now.
Japanese pull saws...
... the only way to go.
Hacksaw: torture instrument.
Why would u use a hacksaw for wood, they're meant for metal.
I "SAW" what they did there.
yuk yuk
Lots of wrong, but he sounds sure of himself. 😂
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3:40 , ..,, and that’s how he lost his index finger.