Metal Saw

Metal Saw
Vital statistics
Size	2 x 1
Skill(s) RequiredSpecific needed skills.<br>The default skills every hearthling starts off with, Oral Tradition, Primitive Tools & Wilderness Survival), are ignored.	Metal Working
Object(s) Required	Bar of Hard Metal, Tree Bough
Produced By	Smithy's Hammer, Anvil
Required By	(2) Board, Wondrous Woodshaving
Slot(s) Occupied	5L or 5R
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A Metal Saw is the metal equivalent of the Bonesaw. One is required to cut a log into boards. With a metal saw, you get ~50% more boards per log than you get with a bonesaw. Different types of logs provide different amounts of boards, see more here.

How to Acquire

You need a smithy's hammer equipped and have right-clicked an anvil.

Quality

• Metal Saw Quality = ${\frac {{\frac {_{q}Metal+_{q}Bough}{2}}*9+{_{q}Anvil*4+_{q}Smithy'sHammer}*3}{16}}$ and is softcapped by ${\sqrt[{2}]{Strength*Smithing}}$.

• $\operatorname {_{q}Board} ={\sqrt {_{q}Saw*_{q}Wood}}$ and is softcapped by Carpentry.

Tips

• At start when quantity is not an issue and quality is, you want to use the best-quality saw you can get. Bonesaws are a lot easier to get at higher qualities than metal saws. This is due the fact that bonesaws are based off of the Survival skill and Bone Material quality; the metal saw involves metal quality and the Smithing skill. It's fairly easy to get a 150+ quality bonesaw, but metal is much more difficult to improve at fresh world.