A hand saw for cutting metal is called a hacksaw. Powered saws are often called chop saws or cut-off saws, but metal-cutting band saws and metal-cutting circular saws also are available.

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If a shop was “high-tech,” it might have a metal cutting bandsaw or abrasive-disk chop saw. In recent decades plasma cutters appeared in some farm shops to take slicing metal to a higher level.