Hazel Horn in Little Rock AR asks: I am looking for a band saw to cut our bone tumors. What do I need to be looking for? Power? Size? Other suggestions?
I don't have any personal experience with it, but at a program about orthopedic pathology about 10 years ago I heard about a hardware-store item called a scroll saw. It was cheap - about $200 for quality, $100 for Chinese - and said to be just impossible to cut yourself with. Disadvantage was its fairly large tabletop footprint. The Cowboy Way for pathologists sawing bone is a Civil War era amputation saw, called a Satterlee saw. (I actually saw one in a Civil War re-enactors' field hospital, complete with chrome plating.) They last a long time. If I'm not allowed a Satterlee saw, I go to a hardware store and buy a hacksaw. (Many small pathology services are no longer able to cut bone.) Bob Richmond Samurai Pathologist / Old Sawbones Knoxville TN _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet
