| Chainsaw techniques |
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| Thursday, 31 January 2008 | |||||||
Page 3 of 5 Brushing. The brushing technique is used to precisily remove small amounts of material using the tip of the chain. The bar always runs at right angles to the wood being removed. This can be used to create coves, required to fit one log over another, and to precisiely remove wood in grooves, notches. The chainsaw runs at medium speed and the tip of the bar brushed back and forth across the wood being removed in small slow movements. This cut can leave very smooth surfaces. In fact it is operating like a small planer. Care must be taken of course not to touch any of the wood in the dangerous kickback zone of the bar, ie the top 1/2 of the tip. Keeping the bar at right angles to the wood also ensures that the saw stays put and doesn't run across the log or up the sides of a notch cut.
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Functional Art of the Woods
