Rigid hand tools
Rip saw
Rip saw: Cuts with wood grain. Accepted recognition cues: hand-saw blade and tooth pattern intended for rip cutting.

- Primary use
- Cuts with wood grain.
- Recognition cues
- hand-saw blade; tooth pattern intended for rip cutting
- Evidence
- Strong entry-level support
- Scope
- Watchlist or reference-only
- Practice status
- Reference-only; excluded from scored practice.
Publication restriction
Reference-only: Crosscut/rip scored comparison remains gated on specialist tooth-geometry review at native and 320 px sizes.
This restriction comes from the release record; the tool never appears as a scored answer option while it remains.