[TheForge] hacksaws

[Ralph]

At 10:06 PM 7/10/02 -0500, you wrote:
>We have a differance of opinion at the farm as to when hacksaws where first
>available. Can anyone give me a date and refferance to back that
>information?
>
>and
>
>Who is it that makes the best blades for them and what retail place can I
>find them?
>
>
>Dan Rathburn
>Elgin, IL USA
>

Dan that depends on what you mean by 'avalible' I know that there is a 
hacksaw included in the Mastermyr find that to me looks almost like a 
modern hacksaw. And that was dated at around 1050-1100 AD. So by 
extrapolation it would seem that the tool was fairly evolved by that time 
meaning they had been around for a long time prior to that.


Ralph


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