Ryoba not Ryobi

**Wolfs** · 5th January 2005, 12:23 AM

Yesterday I posted this question. Earlier this year I bought my first Japanese saw, a fine crosscut saw, and was very impressed. So out of the festive season came a second aquisition, a general purpose ryoba saw with a dual purpose blade to both rip and cross cut. Cross cuting is easy when the wood is in a vice and the blade is used at right angles and this also works for ripping if the workpiece is small enough. Today I tried to rip a long board holding it across two "horses" but to get the blade at right angles requires a strange working position and a significant effort. The other problem I found is that it is quite difficult to keep an accurate straight line and once off line the saw has a mind of its own and contiues on. Any advice?

The advice came back about a Ryobi saw. Any views on the Japanese hand saw?

**Rusty** · 5th January 2005, 01:48 AM

Hi Wolfs;
Disclaimer: don't own and have never used a ryoba. However I've read that it must be used at a low angle to prevent the teeth on the top of the blade (the ones that ain't cutting) from entering the kerf. Hope that helps. For what it's worth, I do have a cross cut kataba and I think it rocks.
Take it easy,
Russel.

**markharrison** · 5th January 2005, 09:35 PM

I wish I had an easy answer for you. The accurate rip cut with a ryoba saw has also eluded me. One thing that did improve my result was another blade! It seems that the original blade had more set on the teeth on one side than the other. Well, that's what I think anyway.

I find this tool easier to use on saw horses than the bench. I am fully aware that there is more to learn about the technique on this subject but I have so far resisted the urge to run this down due to a lack of time and more pressing projects.

If you do turn some more infomation on this I am definitely interested.

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