Sentence examples for handsaw from inspiring English sources
noun
A saw small enough to be used by one hand.
Objects included a caulking gun, a power drill, a handsaw or a 0.45 calibre handgun.The researchers duly found that the handgun holders were judged to be 0.2 inches (0.5cm), 0.5 inches and 2.3 inches taller than those who held a saw, drill and caulking gun, respectively.
Felling is commonly accomplished by chain saw; ax and handsaw are seldom used today.
The modern broad-blade handsaw is taper ground, that is, the blade is not of uniform thickness but is several thousandths of an inch thinner at the back than at the toothed edge.
The familiar modern handsaw, with its thin but wide steel blade, cuts on the push stroke; this permits downhand sawing on wood laid across the knee or on a stool, and the sawing pressure helps to hold the wood still.
And from this, an approximate house-like form is cut out with a handsaw, I suppose, or possibly a chainsaw.
There was no electricity (Kitkitdizze is still off the grid, and nowadays runs on solar and generators), so they felled the trees with a two-man handsaw.
4) One of the great existential questions in the world of surfing is whether surfboard designers, most of whom now use computer software to shape their boards, can become masters of their craft without the experience of shaping thousands of boards through traditional planer-and-handsaw methods.
The city is host to the annual World Championship Timber Carnival (July 4), which includes logrolling, speed-climbing, and handsawing events; the carnival logo celebrates logger Tim Burr.
The small handsaws were sometimes backed with a stiffening rib to prevent the buckling of thin blades; today's backsaw still carries the rib.
None of the fine beef, lamb, and pork cuts resemble the animals they came from — despite the restaurant's décor, which, with handsaws as wall hangings and buzz saws as light fixtures, conjures a crude butcher's shop.
Nailed to a wall near a workbench were some white-painted Homasote panels on which Fane had hung handsaws and other implements, and had traced their shapes with a black marker to show which went where.
