There’s no reason to use a hacksaw in a modern farm shop. Cutting metal on a farm often used to involve either an oxy-acetylene torch, a hacksaw or tin snips. If a shop was “high-tech,” it ...

These rugged tools have thin blades, small teeth, and a durable frame—all essential components for aggressively powering through metal and hard plastic. Unlike other hand saws, hacksaws use a ...

Read more: Battery Brands Ranked From Worst To Best If you're cutting through metal tubing, a good tool to pick up is the Makita 18V brushless cordless 5-7/8 in. metal cutting saw. It ditches the cord ...

Most coping saws use 6- to 6-1/2 inch long blades, though some use blades as small as three inches long. While longer blades cut more quickly and evenly through material, shorter-bladed coping saws ...

Recent improvements in battery technology give larger power tools—such as full-size reciprocating saws—enough power to cut through wood and metal, but they can’t sustain that power over long ...

The Orbital Jig Saw uses a reciprocating or elliptical motion to saw through material depending on the use. It can be used to make straight or curved cuts. In the Maker Lab, we have DeWalt Orbital Jig ...

If you’re doing a lot of metal working, a chop saw is a great tool to have. It’s an easy and quick way to do a lot of neat, clean accurate cuts. [Making Stuff] wanted to do just that ...

The saws often got stuck while cutting through PCBs and were generally a ... he decided it was time to upgrade the lab’s cutting tools. Along with fellow student [Lukas Schrittwieser] he built ...

Hole saws are cutting tools used to make circular holes in a variety of materials. Also referred to as a hole cutter, the tool consists of a cup-shaped metal cylinder with a toothed cutting edge on ...

Power saws are tools that cut and shape material such as wood, metal, and ceramics. Applications for power saws include building and construction, fabrication, as well as maintenance and repair. They ...