Author Topic: Diston on ebay  (Read 2898 times)

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Re: Diston on ebay
« Reply #1 on: July 22, 2013, 05:23:30 PM »
It is a saw straight edge, used to test flatness when tensioning a saw blade.

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Re: Diston on ebay
« Reply #2 on: July 24, 2013, 07:37:16 AM »
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.