RWW 191 One Step to Better Hand Sawing

I’m going to go out on a limb and say that sawing accuracy is the single most important hand skill that anyone should have. Being able to plane a board is nice, and handle a chisel is helpful too. But sawing to your line and keeping the cut plumb (or not if that’s what your layout line tells you) will make the planing and chiseling so much easier and faster.

Saying this and achieving accuracy with a hand saw are two different things. But better hand sawing is not something that will take you years or even hours to achieve. I think you can do it with one step, and I hope this video will show you what I mean.