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2. Circular saw - Wikipedia

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   A hand-held circular saw is the most conventional circular saw. This miter saw is a circular saw mounted to swing to crosscut wood at an angle. A table saw. 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.

3. Radial arm saw - Wikipedia

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   A saw which combines the sliding and compound features is known as a sliding compound miter saw or SCMS. Before the advent of the radial arm saw, table saws and hand saws were most commonly used for crosscutting lumber. Table saws can easily rip stock, but it is awkward to push a long piece of stock widthwise through a table saw blade.

4. Riving knife - Wikipedia

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   A riving knife to the left of the blade on table saw. A riving knife is a safety device installed on a table saw, circular saw, or radial arm saw used for woodworking. Attached to the saw's arbor, it is fixed relative to the blade and moves with it as blade depth is adjusted. [1]

5. Tabitha Babbitt - Wikipedia

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   The circular saw was connected to a water-powered machine to reduce the effort to cut lumber. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The first circular saw she allegedly made is in Albany , New York . [ 6 ] In the summer of 1948, a version of Babbitt's saw, built to her specifications, was on display at a Shaker exhibit at Fenimore House in Cooperstown, N. Y., as a loan ...

6. Table saw - Wikipedia

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   The history [6] of the table saw dates back to the early 18th century when the first known patent for a table saw was filed in 1777 by Samuel Miller who was an English scientist. Miller's design featured a circular saw blade mounted on an arbor with a table to support the wood being cut.

7. Edmond Michel - Wikipedia

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   [better source needed] Michel then tried again, using a piece of wood with a notch carved into it. In the notch, he mounted the same mechanism as the mechanical reaper, but with a 6-inch blade. This was the first electric circular saw. [4] Patent drawing for the first Michel Electric Hand Saw, in 1924