Two-man buck saw

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A two-man buck saw with wooden H-shaped frame. At the top of the frame is a tensioning cord looped around the notches in the saw arms and it tied off on the shorter saw arm. The cords are twisted on each side and meet at a loop near the center. Fitted into mortise holes at the top center of the arms are two stretchers. The top stretcher curves slightly upwards and the bottom one curves slightly downwards. The stretchers are connected at the center with a flat head screw and a nut. The saw blade is attached to both arms at the bottom of the frame and has saw plain tooth cutters. One saw arm is longer than the other. The shorter arm is slightly darker than the other. A white paper tag attached to a stretcher has hand written black ink text that reads, [BUCK SAW].

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