Bruce Lambert wrote:
> I just started reading Tage Frid Teaches Woodworking.  He stated in the book
> that he primarily used the bow saw and he would re-file any cross-cut blade
> he got into a rip cut.  He said it cut faster in either direction.

   He certainly said that, and no doubt he did that, but the arguments 
against using a rip saw for cross-cutting is that it leaves a rough cut 
in many woods.  In the well-dried furniture-grade hardwoods that Frid 
used it was probably just fine, especially when you consider that Frid 
sanded everything he could get his hands on.

M.Mike
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