Tool Talk
What's-It Forum => What's-It Forum => Topic started by: Branson on June 07, 2011, 11:56:36 AM
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This weekend I picked up a small steel tool box of some vintage, along with its contents. Among the contents was a small skew back saw. The blade is 15 1/2 inches long, and seems to be made of decent steel. The handle is the old comfortable style (like '40s and early '50s handles). But there's no sign of a makers mark. The only identifying mark I find is a raised S on the bolts of the handle. It might have had a rectangular etch, but it's too far gone for me to read.
Anybody got an idea who made this saw?
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Can you post up a picture of it?
Wayne
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Can you post up a picture of it?
Wayne
Yeah I am straining through my crystal ball modem, and its giving me nuthin!!
But saws that size were either toy saws crudely made for kids to play with, or household/toolbox saws.
Some of the latter was as high a quality as they ever made in a big saw! I have Keen Kutter, only a bit bigger than this, with nickel plated screws and medallion, full carved apple wood handle (the highest grade usually made) and an elaborate etch on the blade.
I also have a toy Disston that was made pretty well for a toy, this size exactly, but still just a toy made for an American Boy toolbox or somesuch.
yours Scott
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Yeah I am straining through my crystal ball modem, and its giving me nuthin!!
Let the tube warm up in that crystal ball.
But saws that size were either toy saws crudely made for kids to play with, or household/toolbox saws.
I'm not sure which it might be. I have a couple of kids' saws, and I like them for what they are. I also have a couple of old (pre-'30s) short saws that are very well made (as well as a few of the more recent 24 inch tool box jobs ). This one doesn't fit neatly into either category. More likely the latter, I think, unless it's on the order of the toy Disston you have.
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Can you post up a picture of it?
Camera's broke. Maybe I can get a picture by the weekend.