Circular saw...is something wrong with this photo?

[Greenheart]

I thought that circular-saw blades rotate with the front edge biting downwards, into the wood. Has this blade been put on backwards? Looks odd to me.

Here's the picture's location on eBay. If the label on the saw didn't have lettering, I might have assumed the photo was back-to-front: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Bosch-GKS...Home_Garden_PowerTools_SM&hash=item2ed83790bd

 

[Graham_Wright]

I thought that circular-saw blades rotate with the front edge biting downwards, into the wood. Has this blade been put on backwards?

The blade pulls against the fixed surface - in this case the saw base. Otherwise it would rise off the wood.

 

[coopec]

Graham is correct

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[prv]

The reason it looks weird is that the handle and motor are on the wrong side of the blade. Either it's a left-handed saw (which I guess might exist for some special purposes, but you'd think it would be mentioned in the description) or the image has been flipped and the writing photoshopped. (The text "Gear head can be rotated in 90 degree steps. Handle can be used on right or left" is I think a red herring, rogue copy and paste from an angle-grinder or multi-tool).

Pete

 

[Greenheart]

Your replies are appreciated, gentlemen. More than likely I just didn't pay close attention to my own circular saw, during the several years I owned one!

I'm on the point of buying an Argos cheapie, for various casual winter projects. The reviews seem generally positive, considering its cost. Any warnings/recommendations?

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/7105025.htm

 

[VicS]

Pete is just about right.

It looks ass about face because the blade is on the opposite site to most .... but not all..
As he says almost as though it was intended to be a left handed one.

Looking through catalogues I have found some others the same... interestingly, like this one, all cordless ones .

I am sure its not flipped and Photoshopped.

Don't know what to make of the statement that the handle can be used on right or left. Perhaps thats it . This is shown with the handle on the right... normally they have the handle on the left......... not sure what then would happen about the direction of rotation ??

I have an old but little used B&D one
They scare the carp out of me

 

[PCUK]

Can't see how it's back to front. I hold the handle and operating button in my right hand the top grip with my left.

 

[sailorman]

Can't see how it's back to front. I hold the handle and operating button in my right hand the top grip with my left.

 

[PCUK]

And your point is?

 

[sailorman]

Your replies are appreciated, gentlemen. More than likely I just didn't pay close attention to my own circular saw, during the several years I owned one!

I'm on the point of buying an Argos cheapie, for various casual winter projects. The reviews seem generally positive, considering its cost. Any warnings/recommendations?

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/7105025.htm

Its pretty much a dead ringer for my skil saw.
just check that the guard actually touches the sole plate ( unlike my skil saw ) my saw chewed my pinkey l/h middle, i was holding the saw in r/h & went to hold the knob without looking, pinkey went in the gap between the guard & sole plate, a slot down the length of the nail

 

[sailorman]

And your point is?

wot me,
my pix is the normal hand of power saws

 

[VicS]

Can't see how it's back to front. I hold the handle and operating button in my right hand the top grip with my left.

A "normal" one from the toolstation catalogue. you'd hold this one as you describe. If you hold the one in the Op like that your left arm will cross over the top of it!

 

[prv]

Can't see how it's back to front. I hold the handle and operating button in my right hand the top grip with my left.

And is the blade then to the right of your hands, or to the left of them?

Pete

 

[paul.norton]

If the saw blade rotated so that the cutting teeth went down into the wood, there is the possibility that the saw could "run away" from you.

Paul

 

[PCUK]

Depends on which saw I'm using.

 

[sailorman]

If the saw blade rotated so that the cutting teeth went down into the wood, there is the possibility that the saw could "run away" from you.

Paul

"Possibly" would not come into it, but you leg would

 

[Corribee Boy]

If the saw blade rotated so that the cutting teeth went down into the wood, there is the possibility that the saw could "run away" from you.

Paul

Without a guard behind the blade, the saw shown could actually run back at you, which is probably more frightening. It happened to a friend of mine and went between his thumb and the rest of his hand, with predictable results.

 

[mtb]

I have three different sized ajustable trend fences, using a template I set the fence then cut, you dont have to buy trend fences there are cheap ones available it is all about saftey and getting a decent straight cut if I cant use the saw bench and have to use a hand power saw
The fence enables me to concentrate on controling the saw not following a line

 

[paul-essex]

on a normal handed saw you have to lean over the saw with your body to view the cut line but on the first pic one you can veiw the cut without leaning over it my view on the subject

 

[Heckler]

Its pretty much a dead ringer for my skil saw.
just check that the guard actually touches the sole plate ( unlike my skil saw ) my saw chewed my pinkey l/h middle, i was holding the saw in r/h & went to hold the knob without looking, pinkey went in the gap between the guard & sole plate, a slot down the length of the nail

Working in Algeria, slip form concrete silos, had local carpenters, they were issued with Skilsaws, they lasted a day before they were confiscated! They kept chopping their fingers off!
S