I ask this question here hoping its the right place. I found out recently that meat as well as wood is put through a bandsaw to cut up carcasses, and instantly assumed that it was a straight edge blade like a knife unlike the saw tooth blades used to cut wood. I have since looked on Google and been unable to find such a bandsaw blade. So my question is if they don’t exist, why? And if they do where do I find information about them?
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They do use bandsaws with teeth. They are the same type that you get for cutting wood. A bandsaw with a straight edge like a knife would not be able to apply the same force that a knife does and will therefore not be able to cut through the meat. The reason knifes have a straight edge is so that the fibers of the meat does not get caught up and instead gets cut. This does mean that it is difficult to cut raw meat on a band saw. There are however a few ways around this issue. Firstly it is quite common to freeze the meat and then just cut the frozen meat on the bandsaw. Another technique is to cut through the meat with a knife all the way to the bone and then take it to the bandsaw to cut through the bone.
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