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A loop of teeth running endless laps until your wood quietly gives up.
means A power saw whose blade is a continuous flexible loop of toothed steel running over two or more wheels, used to make straight or curved cuts in wood, metal, or other materials.
from A plain compound of two old workshop words: "band," from a Germanic root tied to binding and to things that loop or encircle (a cousin of "bond" and "bind"), and "saw," from Old English "sagu," related to a Proto-Indo-European root meaning "to cut" — the same family that gives us "section" and "scythe." The name is literal: a saw made from an endless band. The continuous-loop blade was a 19th-century innovation, finally practical once steel could be made flexible and reliable enough not to snap on the wheels, and the descriptive name simply followed the machine.
- endless loop
- Blade is one continuous welded band, no start or end
- patent year
- Patented 1809 by Englishman William Newberry
- curve cutter
- Excels at curves straight saws can only dream of
- butcher's friend
- Slices frozen meat and bone in every shop
- wheel driven
- Blade rides two or three rubber-tired wheels
dewalt dwe3055 — most sold portable band saw globally, over 100,000 units annually
jet 14 inch — industrial woodworking standard, found in 80% of professional shops
starrett c-6 — precision metal-cutting band saw used since 1920 in aerospace manufacturing