I finally worked out why japanese tools both saws and planes cut on the 
pull.
> Yep, that's the reason.  Most of the work is done while sitting cross 
> legged on
> the ground.

   Don't you just love Japanese woodworking?
     (He sez with tongue in cheek)

  Well, we can't figure out the screw. Its been a couple thousand years 
now, and we just ain't gettin' it.  Got a problem with wedges too.
  And a holdfast? Are you kidding? Way too complex.
  So, we squat on the ground and hold the work with our toes.
     Because we are so cool.

  Our native metal is so poor we have to work 100 times harder for 
stubby little blades that you can't push, because they won't hold up to 
that.
And then keep futzing with it forever.
   Because we are so cool.

  And we are going to make the same boxy, flat, plain-as-a-mud-fence work,
  over and over like robots, unchanged for a thousand years.
    Because we are so cool.

   (Tommy Chippendale eating his heart out the whole time, oh yeah 
sure........heehehehehe)


   I think the best I ever saw was a lanky white guy from Long Beach or 
somesuch, wearing a diaper and flip flops (with socks), and a stubby 
little pony tail,
   In an air conditioned shop with electric lights blazing.....
Giant lodgepole up his butt and zero sense of humor.
       Taking 150 times too long with everything
               Because he was just soooooo cool

   yours Scott

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