Saw band of metal comprising a tooth supporting body , only three geometrically differently designed teeth in a group being repeated along the tooth supporting body , namely a first tooth , a second tooth and a third tooth wherein the first tooth is a chamfered tooth comprising two effective cutting edge portions being arranged in the region of the chamfer and a flank following to the chamfer , the first tooth being a combined performance and surface tooth and being the tooth having the greatest height and the second tooth including a flank , the first tooth and the second tooth being designed as positively conical tooth , the second tooth being designed and arranged such that its flank in the view from the front intersects the chamfer of the first tooth and does not overlap the flank of the first tooth , an ineffective cutting edge portion of the first tooth is arranged between the effective cutting edge portions the first tooth , the ineffective cutting edge portion being caused by the second tooth overlapping this ineffective cutting edge portion so that the second tooth is designed as a chip separator tooth in relation to the first tooth , characterised in that the third tooth is designed as a chip separator tooth in relation to the second tooth and the only three geometrically differently designed teeth provide nine cutting channel portions . a tooth supporting body , only three geometrically differently designed teeth in a group being repeated along the tooth supporting body , namely a first tooth , a second tooth and a third tooth wherein the first tooth is a chamfered tooth comprising two effective cutting edge portions being arranged in the region of the chamfer and a flank following to the chamfer , the first tooth being a combined performance and surface tooth and being the tooth having the greatest height and the second tooth including a flank , the first tooth and the second tooth being designed as positively conical tooth , the second tooth being designed and arranged such that its flank in the view from the front intersects the chamfer of the first tooth and does not overlap the flank of the first tooth , an ineffective cutting edge portion of the first tooth is arranged between the effective cutting edge portions the first tooth , the ineffective cutting edge portion being caused by the second tooth overlapping this ineffective cutting edge portion so that the second tooth is designed as a chip separator tooth in relation to the first tooth , characterised in that the first tooth is a chamfered tooth comprising two effective cutting edge portions being arranged in the region of the chamfer and a flank following to the chamfer , the first tooth being a combined performance and surface tooth and being the tooth having the greatest height and the second tooth including a flank , the first tooth and the second tooth being designed as positively conical tooth , the second tooth being designed and arranged such that its flank in the view from the front intersects the chamfer of the first tooth and does not overlap the flank of the first tooth , an ineffective cutting edge portion of the first tooth is arranged between the effective cutting edge portions the first tooth , the ineffective cutting edge portion being caused by the second tooth overlapping this ineffective cutting edge portion so that the second tooth is designed as a chip separator tooth in relation to the first tooth , characterised in that the third tooth is designed as a chip separator tooth in relation to the second tooth and the only three geometrically differently designed teeth provide nine cutting channel portions . <EOS>