We charged each saw’s battery, strapped a log onto a saw buck, and proceeded to rapidly and repeatedly cut test discs or “cookies” by pivoting the saw through the log. The test exposes ...

Most of them, like table and circular saws, involve cutting in straight lines. Some, like the jigsaw and band saw, can make ...

If a shop was “high-tech,” it might have a metal cutting bandsaw or abrasive-disk chop saw. In recent decades plasma cutters appeared in some farm shops to take slicing metal to a higher level.