tenon saw

British  

noun

1. a small fine-toothed saw with a strong back, used esp for cutting tenons

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Example Sentences

With the tenon saw rip and cross cut to these lines.

From Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 2 by Windsor, H. H. (Henry Haven)

Then, with the tenon saw, at each of the places marked a, b, c, and d, saw across a right angle slit 3⁄16 in. deep.

From Hand-Craft The Most Reliable Basis of Technical Education in Schools and Classes by Sutcliffe, John D.

With tenon saw make a nick at each of the four points g, in each case reaching to the outer of the semicircles, each nick being strictly at right angles.

From Hand-Craft The Most Reliable Basis of Technical Education in Schools and Classes by Sutcliffe, John D.

Place the rail against the bench stop, or in the vice, and cut a small channel in which to run your tenon saw as shown at Fig.

From Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used. by Fairham, William

When all the notches have been marked cut down the AC line of each with a tenon saw, and chisel along BC till the wedge-shaped chip is removed.

From Things To Make by Williams, Archibald