WONDERFUL SAWS.
la do part of the world, probably, has the saw been more minutely and curiously developed that m Great Britain, where they have saws so fine as to cat diamonds, and circular saws nine feet m diameter and a quarter of an inoh thick. They have also veneer saws bo accurately adjusted as to cut eighteen slices of veener frooi a rosewood plank an inoh thick. In London they will put a log of mahogany upon tbe mill and cut It into slices bo thin that the sandnst weights more than the veneer. Yankees have beaten this performance. They take a piece of maho gany or rosewood, soften it by steam, and cut it Into veneers with a knife, without making a grain of eawduot,
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1528, 9 April 1887, Page 2
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127WONDERFUL SAWS. Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1528, 9 April 1887, Page 2
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