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Carpentry

A wooden piece carved following warped surfaces.

SAW ROUNDLY Chantournement

Materials

The cutting or cutting out of materials following curved lines.

SAW WITH RETURNS Scier contre-passe

Work

To cut up a stone perpendicularly to its bedding plane.

SAWDUST CONCRETE B ton de sciure

Building Materials

A material whose aggregate is composed of wood sawdust.

SAWING Sciage

Work

A technique of rock, concrete and masonry working. Sawing was known a few years ago for its application in quarry where one used it for the cutting of very narrow and regular channels and to the shaping of ashlars. Techniques of sawing were mainly wires, blades, and ribbons. For work on permanent structures, the circular saw is used. We mainly can distinguish:

sawing by blades made up of abrasives agglomerated on fiber core ( le sciage par lames constitu es d'abrasifs agglom r s sur me textile), which can find its application, using light tools, for cutting up channels in hard stone;
sawing using circular saws reinforced of tungsten carbide tips or set with diamonds ( le sciage l'aide de scies circulaires arm es de pastilles de carbure de tungst ne ou diamant es), which is used for splitting, carrying out of channels, etc.

Syn. with CUTTING

SAWN FACE Parement sci

Masonry

The visible face of a quarry stone or an ashlar, obtained by sawing.

SAWN STONE Moy e; Pierre d bit e

Building Materials

Of an ashlar sawn into two parts to eliminate earthy insertion.
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