Brian Coffey
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While the orange trees in Seville are lovely, ask any Spaniard which city is famous for oranges, and they’ll surely say “Valencia”!
Nitpick: While often rip saws have coarse teeth, they don’t need to; there are fine-toothed rip saws. What makes a saw a rip saw is the geometry of the teeth—rip saws are filed to cut along the grain, not across it. Dovetail saws, for instance, are filed as rip saws, but have very fine teeth due to the precision required to cut such fine joinery. Other than that, I really enjoyed this puzzle!
@Grant, that’s incorrect. What makes a saw a rip saw is that the teeth are only sharpened across the front. They work like mini chisels chopping into the grain of the wood. Crosscut saws’ teeth are filed on two sides, making the shapes more like a knife so the can cut across the grain. Fine or coarse has to do with the number of teeth, and if you rip boards by hand you want fewer teeth to make quicker work of it. But again, a dovetail saw is filed as a rip saw, as are tenon saws… but neither are “coarse.”
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