It's function is to cut very intricate, small pieces of thin wood and veneer for the craft known as marquetry.
For cutting very thin woods such as for marquetry or puzzles.
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Marie Campkin has written: 'Introducing marquetry' -- subject(s): Marquetry
L. T. Threadgold has written: 'Beginning picture marquetry' -- subject(s): Marquetry
Colonial legislators saw their primary function as?
This is called "marquetry".
Jack Cole Anderson has written: 'How to make marquetry pictures'
Charles W. Frost has written: 'Furniture inlaying' -- subject(s): Marquetry
The primary function of a lapidary saw is to cut rocks for jewelry making. The saw is small and makes a clean, safe cut. The reason for cutting a rock down is for making smaller, more intricate stones instead of slabs.
It is simply a phrase that plays with words. The first saw is 'to see' in past tense. The second saw is the tool saw(noun). The third saw is 'to saw', the verb for using the tool saw. So to rephrase the sentence for understanding, someone has seen a saw (wooden cutter), that did not function (cut the wood).
It's generally agreed that John Spilsbury, a cartographer, created the first jigsaw puzzle in 1760 when he mounted one of his maps onto a hardwood sheet and cut around the borders of the counties using a marquetry saw. He designed his puzzle as an aid to teach British children their geography.
Man was recording what he saw and hunted.