To prevent crack or damage of a high hardness particle layer and to efficiently, simply manufacture a wire saw by feeding the saw for cutting a stone at a high speed in the case of using to cut off the stone, and repeatedly receiving stresses of bending and straightening by contact with a driver and a member to be cut off.

The wire saw comprises a core wire 2 made of a high tensile wire 1 having a predetermined length and high hardness particle layers 3 provided at a predetermined interval on an outer periphery of the wire 2. Thus, stresses of bending and straightening to be repeatedly received are absorbed by flexibility of the wire 2 disposed between the layers 3, and hence crack or damage scarcely occurs at the layer 3. The method for manufacturing the saw 1 comprises the steps of masking the outer periphery of the wire 2 made of the wire 1 having the predetermined length with insulators at a predetermined interval, and dipping the masked wire in an electrodeposition tank in which high hardness particles are floated to form the high hardness particle layers 3 at non-masked sites, thereby simply forming the layers 3 at a predetermined interval.