Modified crosscut saw

2001.15.1

On handle: "Fanno No. 8"

A one man crosscut bucking saw with a straight taper ground blade to prevent binding and a champion-tooth pattern that consists of two alternately set cutting teeth and an unset raker with a gullet between that allows heavy sawing in extra hard, dry, or frozen wood. The supplemental handle is not original. The saw is housed in a homemade plywood case with leather straps. It also has a different handle taken from a Fanno Saw Works No. 8 pruning saw.

H-7 L-46 inches

If you need a saw and all you have are several broken saws, what would you do? You could put the good parts from each broken saw together to make one saw. The saw in the picture has two handles and a blade that came from different saws. The owner even made a useful homemade case out of plywood.

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