Talk:Bucksaw

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Have looked at this quite a bit and it seems bucksaws and bow saws (turning and crafting saws) have had a name collision. Bow saws are for craft work much as a coping saw where bucksaws are for, as example, cutting firewood (bucking) and rough work. Two very different usages homogenized together into the term bow saw. Likely this is because the modern bucksaw usually has a bowed pipe handle and people being how they are thought "that is a bow." Have not found any good references on the web delineating each type however, 45 years of cutting and ordering parts for both did until recently were almost every bucksaw is now called a bow saw ending the distinction and ending availability of proper bucksaw (tall) or bow saw (short) blades. Very difficult to acquire anything but the lowest common denominator in blades resulting in one size fits all. Suggest "coping saw" may be used for bow saw when bow saw is desired. For a bucksaw there is no replacement. August 27, 2010 70.252.143.109 (talk) 21:18, 27 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]