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Types of Saws Explained: Which One Do You Actually Need?

October 9, 202613 min read

Forget the taxonomy. What type of saw you need depends on one thing: whether you are cutting along a board, across it, or in a curve. Here is every common saw, what it is genuinely for, what it is bad at, and the three most people should actually own.

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