Band Saw Back to tools I use This is the saw I use the most in my work and was the first large power tool I purchased in 1976. Hundreds of blades later it still cuts all the curves in my toys. I prefer a 1/4 inch, hook tooth blade for cutting thicker hardwoods. "The master would choose and buy standing trees, and they would be felled and trimmed and brought to his yard to await the arrival of the sawyers...When the timber had been sawn into the required planks and pieces it was carefully stacked so that air, atmosphere and time did their full work upon the wood to season it, and this would take a matter of years." Jocelyn Bailey The Village Wheelwright -1975