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  2. Tabitha Babbitt - Wikipedia

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    Seth Babbitt (father) Elizabeth Babbitt (mother) Sarah "Tabitha" Babbitt (December 9, 1779 - December 10, 1853) was a Shaker credited as a tool maker and inventor. Inventions attributed to her by the Shakers include the circular saw, the spinning wheel head, and false teeth. She became a member of the Harvard Shaker community in 1793.

  3. Circular saw - Wikipedia

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    Tractor-driven circular saw. A circular saw or a buzz saw, is a power- saw using a toothed or abrasive disc or blade to cut different materials using a rotary motion spinning around an arbor. A hole saw and ring saw also use a rotary motion but are different from a circular saw. Circular saws may also be loosely used for the blade itself.

  4. Carbide saw - Wikipedia

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    The name carbide saw came from the tool, a circular saw blade, with silver soldered carbide tips. It competed with and just about replaced, solid or segmental HSS blades, because carbide is much harder than HSS. Before HSS saws were developed, abrasive, friction or hot saws were used and are still manufactured for certain applications.

  5. Glossary of woodworking - Wikipedia

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    A circular saw, mounted on an arbor and driven by an electric motor, that partially protrudes through the top of a table, which is used to support the material being cut. tear out Broken or torn fibers resulting from damage as the blade of a tool exits a cut. tenon A projection on the end of a piece of wood for insertion into a mortise. termite ...

  6. Serrated blade - Wikipedia

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    A serrated blade has a toothlike rather than a plain edge, and is used on saws and on some knives and scissors. It is also known as a dentated, sawtooth, or toothed blade. Many such blades are scalloped, [1] having edges cut with curved notches, common on wood saws and bread knives. With kitchen knives, the finer serrated edge is found ...

  7. Saw - Wikipedia

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    Plytooth blade A circular saw blade with many small teeth, designed for cutting plywood with minimal splintering. Dado blade A special type of circular saw blade used for making wide-grooved cuts in wood so that the edge of another piece of wood will fit into the groove to make a joint. Some dado blades can be adjusted to make different-width ...

  8. Macuahuitl - Wikipedia

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    A macuahuitl ([maːˈkʷawit͡ɬ]) is a weapon, a wooden club with several embedded obsidian blades. The name is derived from the Nahuatl language and means "hand-wood". [2] Its sides are embedded with prismatic blades traditionally made from obsidian, which is capable of producing an edge sharper than high quality steel razor blades.

  9. Openclipart - Wikipedia

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    Openclipart, also called Open Clip Art Library, is an online media repository of free-content vector clip art. The project hosts over 160,000 free graphics and has billed itself as "the largest community of artists making the best free original clipart for you to use for absolutely any reason". The website was brought down for several months by ...