The band saw name isn’t exactly secretive, it’s a saw that has a blade that is a long metal band. So instead of cutting back and forth like a hand saw, it cuts more like a circular or chain saw.

His latest edition is a heavy-duty metal band saw. As with all his tools ... To slowly lower the blade while cutting, [Workshop From Scratch] added a hydraulic piston with an adjustable valve ...

These blades, combining high-speed steel teeth with spring steel backings, are crucial in industries like metalworking, ...

Behringer Saws Inc., a manufacturer of high-performance bandsawing machines, circular cold saws, and structural fabricating ...

By now, we’ve cut it with every tool imaginable, including circular saws, cold chisels, band saws ... pivots down into the cut. The metal is held in place by a vise built into the saw’s ...

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.