Talk:Coping saw
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Hi Everyone enjoying coping saws?
why wood tech —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.210.26.81 (talk) 21:24, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
Tooth direction
[edit]Coping saws, like fret saws and piercing saws, have very flexible blades that need to be used in tension, together with thin frames that (unlike a hacksaw) are only spring tensioned. These frames are not stiff enough to fully tension the blade when used by pushing, so they are used by pulling instead. Yes, you can push a coping saw. You can also hammer a nail in by hitting it with a screwdriver. Neither of these are optimal. Andy Dingley (talk) 09:42, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
Other Languages
[edit]The link to the supposed German equivalent of this tool leads to the "Puksäge" (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puks%C3%A4ge), a different kind of saw. Some of the other foreign language articles link to "Laubsäge" (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laubs%C3%A4ge) instead, which isn't a coping saw either but the best fit as long as the coping saw (called "Kopiersäge" in German) has no article in the German Wikipedia.
Categorisation of structurally-similar saws
[edit](Cross-posting to all relevant talk pages).
I've noticed some inconsistencies in how Wikipedia categorises several saws with similar designs.
The articles Coping saw and Fretsaw both describe their subjects as a type of bow saw. The Bow saw article however is describing a specific type of saw (which may or may not be the same thing as a Bucksaw), rather than a general category that would include coping saws and fretsaws. Both the bow saw and bucksaw articles describe their subjects as a type of frame saw. But again, the Frame saw article seems to be describing a specific design of saw, not a general category that would include bow saws, fretsaws, or coping saws. Additionally, there are the articles on Hacksaw and Piercing saw, which don't assign their subjects to a broader category, but presumably ought to once we have worked out what the general term for all these types of saw is.
I'm not sufficiently knowledgeable the categorization of saw to fix this myself, so I'm posting this here in the hope that someone who is can do so. Iapetus (talk) 17:05, 29 August 2025 (UTC)