I just this week read a post about fleam over on Popular Woodworking. Aparently Colonial Williamsberg does not put fleam on their saws, since there is no evidence of fleam on saws in Colonial America.
This got me to thinking, Tage Frid, an expert among experts,  liked to use a ripsaw  for cutting dovetails across grain.  [...]

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Here is an amazing tool  that I have not seen before,  I learned  about it at Full Chisel.
And here at Popular Woodworking is an example of it in use.
What it  does, is cut a sharp angle and keep cutting.  Rather amazing really.
This is one of my first  attempts.  Nothing much to write home about yet.
Bob

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A few odd points to clear up some common misunderstanding on tools and sharpness.
The first point is, that unless you are changing the actual angle of the blade to make it a lower degree angle, you are more specifically making the blade keen.

Making a blade keen does not make a weaker blade.  Thing about the [...]

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Dubbing.
We are not perfect in our methods.

An  ideal edge might be perfectly keen.  Sadly we will rock a bit as we sharpen.  at the very end we tend to rock just a smidgeon, and cause a fine dub.

Now we have a bit of an issue.
When we rock it back flat, the end of the blade [...]

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The Gritty Details
Here is a table of the relative grit sizes of the different standards used.  CAMI is the American Standard, and for a long time is was the main standard.  The European standard, FEPA, is more precise, and so FEPA graded sandpaper tends to work faster than CAMI.  JIS is used for Japanese water [...]

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