"Thomas R. Bruce" wrote:
> 
> >      Then I got to thinking it might be tough to mark and saw
> > the pins on the ends of a 60" board. I could obviously cut the
> > tails on the top and bottom boards and then mark out the pins
> > by laying the sides flat on the workbench and offering up
> > the tailboards.But what about making the cuts accurately ..
> > ..with the boards laid flat it would seem to be a pain to make
> > cuts with the saw held vertically.Alternatively,to stand the board upright
> > and make cuts at a 60" height would be awkward also.
> 
> I've done this with a couple of large carcases.  Like you, I'd concluded
> that marking the pins from the tails was the easier way to proceed (and so
> it proved).  However, I found that laying the sides flat on the bench didn't
> work very well; the top had a tendency to wave around in the air and marking
> in the space formed by the tail openings and the benchtop proved very
> awkward.  I employed two cheating devices in order to help with the vertical
> approach.

I was making a 7' high carcass and faced with the same dilemma. I found
that using a Japanese saw with the pull stroke worked pretty well for
sawing pins on a horizontal board. Only time I went back to the Dozuki
since acquiring my first IT saw.

Carl
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