George- don't you mean "Drawn and quarter-sawn?""
Even old pipeline welders know some basic carpentry and cabinetry. I have a 12" DeWalt Compound Miter saw, and I use the same trick I do when making rip or cross cuts to length on paneling with either a sabre saw or a circular saw- Good side (if there is a choice) down and I mark the layout with heavy painter's masking tape before snapping the chalk line- that keeps the tearing from the blade's teeth from shredding the cut. When you use a table saw or a power miter bow, as shown, as the blade revolution is opposite that of a circular saw, then you put the good side up on the table or frame--
That being said, I hope that was a "gag" foto and not for real. I recall fotos of the Winchester Custom shop circa 1980 in a SC article about the Model 21- the stocker was cutting the butt to a scribed line on masking tape and he was using a Band Saw- not a Miter Box- I figured he might just have known what he was doing.
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