Pam Niedermayer, Austin, TX
>What if we make the assumption that there has always been a need for a backsaw and that all woodworkers/saw makers were driven to invent it? The technology isn't that hard, some thing blade steel, some thick backbone steel/bronze/whatever. So then the question becomes one of expense. What would a backsaw have cost in 1600? Could furniture makers have afforded that? And on and on...

Pam