Originally Posted by
Patrick Chase
Are you talking about fleam or slope here?
The reason I ask is because the gullet volume increase you cited in post 6 is most easily attained by increasing slope. Isaac covers this a bit in the articles on his site (which I know you've read).
A rip saw with 15 degrees of slope can be a very nice thing IMO.
There is no such thing as a rip saw with 15 degrees of fleam, because that's a crosscut saw by definition.
That was kind of my thought on this but thought it maybe better to just let it go.
jtk
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