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Posted: **Fri Apr 04, 2014 8:05 am**

JPG40504 wrote:Who said it was walnut???

See post #7

Posted: **Fri Apr 04, 2014 9:11 am**

Score it on the table saw and then rip it with your handsaw. Be sure your handsaw is a rip saw and the teeth are sharp. The kerf from your table saw cut will help you stay straight. You should only have about a 6" thickness to hand rip if you kerf it 3" to a side. Then plane the sawn surface with a #5 Jack or #4 Smooth plane to remove the saw marks.

Posted: **Fri Apr 04, 2014 2:11 pm**

WmZiggy wrote:Score it on the table saw and then rip it with your handsaw. Be sure your handsaw is a rip saw and the teeth are sharp. The kerf from your table saw cut will help you stay straight. You should only have about a 6" thickness to hand rip if you kerf it 3" to a side. Then plane the sawn surface with a #5 Jack or #4 Smooth plane to remove the saw marks.

I didn't know if there would be any issues with just running it over my table saw blade part way on both sides then using a handsaw. Do you free hand on a sled it or use the fence?

Posted: **Fri Apr 04, 2014 3:46 pm**

fredsheldon wrote:I didn't know if there would be any issues with just running it over my table saw blade part way on both sides then using a handsaw. Do you free hand on a sled it or use the fence?

I'd just use the fence, so ya get both cuts parallel.

Posted: **Fri Apr 04, 2014 4:14 pm**

Ditto what beeg says.

Posted: **Fri Apr 04, 2014 4:16 pm**

reible wrote:See post #7

Missed that!:o

Also the thread title(ripping).

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Posted: **Fri Apr 04, 2014 4:18 pm**

fredsheldon wrote:I didn't know if there would be any issues with just running it over my table saw blade part way on both sides then using a handsaw. Do you free hand on a sled it or use the fence?

"free hand"???????????:eek:

Posted: **Fri Apr 04, 2014 5:24 pm**

Always use a fence when ripping on a TS. Always use a miter gauge or sled when cross cutting.

Free handing on a table saw is an invitation to injury.

Posted: **Fri Apr 04, 2014 8:30 pm**

beeg wrote:Are you really saying it's two foot long, 12" wide and 12" THICK??

Everything is BIG in Texas! Well, almost everything/

Posted: **Fri Apr 04, 2014 10:02 pm**

charlese wrote:Everything is BIG in Texas! Well, almost everything/

It was until I cut in down into 12 6"x6"x8" blocks with some left over for later. A friend has a mill and he gave me the block along with some oak logs from which I produced about 30 bowls. It had been sitting in his barn for years.

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