Dear stormo,
Talking of a "difference" between a router and a saw could be a bit
misleading; actually, those two kinds of tools serve very dissimilar
purposes.
A saw is a tool usually based upon a toothed or dentated blade that
can have various shapes; exceptions are, for example, chainsaws or
bandsaws. However, all saws have in common that their main purpose is
cutting objects in pieces. Sometimes, saws are designed in a way that
allows to cut wood or other material not only with straight or simple
curved cuts, but also in more complex custom shapes, like jigsaws. But
those are exceptions. Mainly, a saw is simply used to cut things.
A router, on the other hand, serves a completely different main
purpose. It is commonly not used to cut wood, but to shape it. Also,
it does not have a blade, but a rotating bit with a coarse surface.
Thus, it works much like a rasp. Routers are mainly used in
woodworking to cut grooves, hollow out parts or create shaped trims
along the edges of wooden objects. The design of the router's bit
determines the shapes of the edges and grooves created that way.
See also these two articles, provided by the Wikipedia online
encyclopedia, for information on routers and saws and how they are
used:
Router
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_router
Saw
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saw
I hope this answers your question!
Best regards,
Scriptor |
