Eric Dahlman wrote:
> 
> This brings me to my question and that is how does a galoot go about  
> resawing?  In particular I want to take a board that is approximately  3 
> feet long, 10 inches wide and 2 inches thick and cut it into  
> approximately 1/2 inch thick boards that I can then do a book match  
> with.  I just can't imagine how to do the resawing with just a bowsaw  
> and my poor technique.  Is there a trick or a tool that I need to  learn 
> about to do this properly?

The other guys have pointed you at the best information on this.

I will merely point out that resawing is one of the hardest
things to do "galoot style", apart from artistic carving, which
is easy to "do", but difficult to do well.

If you're not already pretty "down pat" with other sawing,
I wouldn't try resawing.

   BugBear
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