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• Japanese pull saws are actually quite commonly available in the West, from American brands. They may not be as pretty as the authentic hand-made style, but they work nicely for the jobs they are suited to.

• This saw is about as long as you can go before you need a handle on the other end, and a second person.

• The saws used in serious miter boxes were very long back saws, with a thick, heavy reinforcing rib on the top to keep the saw perfectly straight.

• Large two-person saws have huge teeth with very deep notches, needed for the thick logs these saws are used on.

• Crosscut saw with teeth on back.

• Saw painting, a folk art tradition, is an excellent use for old saws.

• Bone saws, for surgery or butchering (or both if you’re a terrible surgeon) have teeth very similar to rip saws for wood. This would indicate that bone is similar in hardness to wood, and does not have a grain structure, both of which are true.

• This saw has a little segment of extra teeth on the top side, labeled as being for cutting nails (so you don’t ruin the teeth on the main cutting side).

• Modern saws have more complex, bevel-ground and induction-hardened teeth, which work well for both ripping and crosscutting.

• This saw for cutting firewood while camping is nothing more than a chain saw blade with strap handles on each end. Its selling point is that the whole thing weighs very little and folds up into a small pouch.

• Two-Man Saw

• Keyhole Saws

• Some tree pruning saws cut on the pull stroke. When you’re reaching over your head to cut a branch from the top, pulling turns out to be the more comfortable direction to apply pressure.

• A traditional-style Japanese pull saw with replaceable blade. Cheaply made in China.

• Back Saw

• Back Saw

• Old saws like these make great wall decorations in rustic-themed restaurants. Some have beautiful handles with chip-carved designs. They are the reason I was so eager to get my first power saw, as soon as my parents felt I was old enough not to cut my thumb off with it.

• Crosscut Saw

• Crosscut Saw

• Rip Saw

• Old cross-cut saws have triangular knife-like teeth meant to cut through the grain, more so than scoop the wood out.

• Rip Saw

• Crosscut Saw

• Crosscut Saw

• Crosscut Saw

• Crosscut Saw

• Very small backed saws are sometimes called razor saws. They have very fine teeth, and are used for model making and other delicate work in soft woods or soft metal.

• Back saws have a stiffening rim on the back. They typically have fine, closely spaced teeth to let you do the job of a dovetail router or tenoning cutter manually.

• Back Saw

• This convenient handle can hold pull saws, standard hacksaw blades, and reciprocating saw blades, if you want to turn a power saw blade into a manual saw.

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