No, a band-saw has a kerf, an amount of material that it destroys in the process of cutting. You don't want that. What you want is more of a slicing action, l

No, a band-saw has a kerf, an amount of material that it destroys in the process of cutting. You don't want that. What you want is more of a slicing action, like a knife. I would imagine that it was done with a very big, very precise guillotine style cutting implement.