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Woodworking Forum => Woodworking Forum => Topic started by: skipskip on July 22, 2013, 05:08:23 PM

Title: Diston on ebay
Post by: skipskip on July 22, 2013, 05:08:23 PM

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=221257705672&ssPageName=ADME:B:FSEL:US:1123

Title: Re: Diston on ebay
Post by: dowdstools on July 22, 2013, 05:23:30 PM

It is a saw straight edge, used to test flatness when tensioning a saw blade.

Lynn

Title: Re: Diston on ebay
Post by: Branson on July 24, 2013, 07:37:16 AM

Quote from: dowdstools on July 22, 2013, 05:23:30 PM

It is a saw straight edge, used to test flatness when tensioning a saw blade.

Lynn

Audel's Carpentry books show one of these in use.  But a steel straight edge is a good thing to have -- we kept a couple of them at the planing mill where I worked back in the '80s.