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A surgeon's scalpel for woodworkers, threading impossibly tight curves one breath-thin blade at a time.
means A handsaw with a thin blade stretched in a U-shaped frame, used for cutting intricate curves and interior shapes in wood.
from The name comes from 'coping,' the woodworking sense of cutting a joint's profile to fit snugly against a molding — itself from the older 'cope,' meaning to cut or shape, which traces back through French 'couper' (to cut) to a likely root in 'coup,' a blow or stroke. The saw earned its name from this fine fitting work; the blade simply followed the word that already described the task.
- name origin
- Named for coping joints, not emotional survival
- blade swap
- Pin-end blade pops out to thread interior cuts
- reversible teeth
- Mount blade to cut on push or pull
- deep throat
- U-frame depth lets it reach far from edges
- fretwork kin
- Closely related to the finer-cutting fret saw