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		Manual Sawing - Course: Technique for manual working of materials. Trainees' handbook of lessons (Institut für Berufliche Entwicklung, 14 p.)
			(introduction...)
			1. Purpose of sawing
			2. Sawing tools
			3. Auxiliary means for sawing
			4. Operation of sawing
			5. Standing position and guiding of the saw
			6. Handling of the saw
			7. Labour safety recommendations

1. Purpose of sawing

Sawing is cutting of workpieces in a narrow kerf by many chisel-type teeth on a saw blade arranged one after the other for the purpose of cutting off or of providing workpieces with slots or recesses.

Figure 1 Sawing

Manual sawing is used only in single-piece production and repair work on small-section workpieces because it is hard and time-consuming manual work.

For bigger cuts hacksawing, circular sawing (slitting) and band sawing machines are used.