Sawing by Hand?

[flehto]

After my first build a bandsaw was purchased and never used the carpenter hand saw again. Having served a 5 year tool and diemaker apprenticeship, I learned that once you knew how to do whatever task was req'd and the tools to do the task, the most time efficient method/tool  was used. Have built a few dozen LRs and Hawkens and  the carpenter handsaw played no part in their build. Although acquiring skill w/ the carpenter handsaw is laudable,  in gun building it's a slow way to remove wood. But, to each his own.....Fred

[Birddog6]

The first rifle I assembled was back in 1978.  Then I got really brave & decided a chisel & draw knife was the way Ol Dan'l would have did it. (not realizing he didn't build ol Betsy). Boy now I could remove some wood with a drawwknife & a couple good hand planes.  It looked like Bucky Beaver was in the work shop. I looked at saws now & then, but it was basically whatever Sears had on the floor. I didn't know about Japan saws & dif types of saws.  Slab sawing down the side of a blank was way too slow for me.  I could drawknife that & plane it by hand allot faster. when I thought of Hand Saws, my only thought was grandpas ol hand saw we cut everything with for 100 yrs & been sharpened 1 time & the agony of sawing on that stock for what ? a month ?  You could have gnawed the side wood off faster than using that ol saw.  Then I traded 15 rolls of fiberglass insulation to a feller for a old Walker-Turner band saw & I still use it to this day.  The only time I hand saw something is maybe a limb saw in the yard or to cut PVC pipe with a hacksaw.