Types of Hand Saws With Uses

Be familiar with these types of hand saws as your requirement. If you need a manual small cut then you can choose a manually powered hand saw.  But if you need a massive cut you can choose a power-driven saw. 

Saw works based on its teeth. Teeth ranged from 2-32 this is called Teeth Per Inch (TPI). The lower the teeth cut quickly but rough cut. And bigger the TPI range smooth and finish cut. 

Types of Hand Saws With Uses

Hand Saw is a manual or muscle-powered driven saw tool.

We can use Hand saw for:

• Wood working
• Metal working
• Drywall
• Plastic 
• Furniture Making

Wood working

based on your requirement different types of hand saw you can use for your project like you can make your own chairs or sleeves. Also in your gardens like erecting a fence or resize your trees and shrubs. 

• Backsaw helps precise cut
• Pull saw dovetail cut
• Coping saw inside cut of a wood

You also can bow saw, rip saw, hack saw,  keyhole,  crosscut, Japanese,  fret for your own purpose.

Metal working

• Keyhole can pierce a hole in metal
• Hack Saw can cut metal in pieces

Drywall

•  Keyhole saw can make hole into the floor fixtures, wall, ceilings,  and outlets. 
• Wallboard saw can cut a wall 

Plastic work

• you can use pull saw, fret saw, hack saw, keyhole saw for plastic work. 

Furniture Making 

• You can use rip saw, or work with a crosscut when want to design pulls, making molds, pegs or drawer stops
• You can use pull saw or dovetail saw to complete shelf and drawer dividers
• Coping saw helps to making curves during making a molds

To know different types of power saws you can read this article.

Hacksaw

Depending on the usage there is 2 type of hacksaw in the market, frame with fix length and flexible frame. You can change the length as your requirement by adjusting the frame, also you can adjust blade tension by using a tension screw nut attached to the end of the frame. Most widely use C shape frame to cut metal pipes.

The average length of the blade is 10 to 12 inch and 7/16” to 9/16″ wide and are 0.025″ thickness. The teeth of the blade vary from 14-32 per inch (TPI). You need a blade with fine teeth to cut thin metal and less TIP to bigger jobs like the thick iron pipe.

Depending on the thickness of material and type of materials different types of blade use, see below table for details:

Type of blade	Construction	Usages
Alternate/Regular	The teeth are alternate of each other like right and left.	1. For quick removal of iron-free softer metals like aluminium or tin, PVC, conduit, cut fibreglass 2. Rough cut less finishing 3. Don’t use heavy metal
Raker	Three sets of teeth in a group left-right and straight	Thick or standard metal pipes
Wavy	Teeth run from right to left in the wavy format	1. Smooth cut in hard metal, useful for cutting sheet metal 2. Not use in hard metal 3. Less noise and vibration during cutting

Coping Saw 

Coping saw as like hack saw and in bigger bow saw category. The purpose of U shaped saw is basically coping. The saw also used both external and internal cutting. Coping saw blade is thin and shorter compare to other bow saw typically 6-3/4 inch. The blade is attached in a lighter steel frame locked on both ends by 2 tension screws.  Teeth range between 10 to 32 TPI. 

Coping saw use to thin materials such as trim work, cut wooden molding,  aluminum pipework. Coping tiny blades capable to cut back-beveled to create precise joints. This saw should not use for more than 1 inch thickness job. 

Type of Saw	Type of cutting
	cut through a hole or even a cutout
	back-beveled cut
Coping Saw	back-cut curves and create precise joints
	inside corner joints when installing trim
	angels, corner, crown molding

Crosscut Saw

This type of saw is a conventional type saw that can cut the roughest type of wood surface. there is 2 type of crosscut saw in the market, 1 person and 2 person usage. The 2 person crosscut saw blade is bigger in length (like 4 feet 6 feet and 8 feet) than other types of hand saw also thicker (1.5 mm)  and wide (6.5 inches). 

The 1 person crosscut saw blade teeth between 10 and 12 TPI and 2 person saw  1 TPI.

The cross-cut saw is designed for trimming branches or cutting lumber, as well cut across the grain of the wood

There are some other types of Hand Saw

1. Fret Saw
2. Hole Saw
3. Veneer Saw
4. Wallboard Saw
5. Pruning Saw
6. Pole Saw
7. Keyhole Saw
8. Japanese Saw
9. Back Saw

Describing the above types of hand saws you can easily select which one is best fit for your project.