Linkage to a chatty YouTube channel's saw-setting video; where the original Seymour-Smith hammer-set is described (at around 7 mins 30 sec); then...
Regularity & speed. Hammer-sets mimic the dynamics of the technique used in 18th/19th-century saw-manufacture (hammer-setting upon special...
[ATTACH] https://badaxetoolworks.com/collections/tools-and-accessories/products/bad-axe-saw-set . . . appears to be usefully focused on...
Bruce1 - Hi - well found . . . . the Andertons are quite a tricky family to untangle; the above George Anderton (engraver) deffo had a son Richard...
[ATTACH] . . . . this above image is of "the best address in Birmingham" - Square . . . later known as: Old Square; demolished piecemeal in...
Bruce1 - Hi - (doubtless merely confirming what you've already read/found) . . . if the address # reads: 282; BSSM suggests between 1896-1918 &...
Thank you. Most helpful.
Ha! . . . if you mean Simon Barley's BSSM, yes, that's a cracking book & can be read/used at different levels . . . Simon's delicacy of judgement...
Ray - Hi - happily, have obtained a print copy of Wakefield's 1789/90 Directory, to consult alongside the (2001) CD version of the 1790s Universal...
. . . generously phrased: thank you. I'm NOT a collector; but an 'umble researcher: Birmingham saw-makers are fascinating due to - among other...
Bruce1 - your nice backsaw doesn't appear oddly-proportioned, or fiddled with; so . . . . surely we should treat it as a useful & in its way...
Bruce1 - thank you; ATKIN came up in some recent original research; buying-up the business of a moribund competitor (successors to: THOMPSON &...
Hi - can we see a view of the nut-side of the handle, please? And ideally another one with a very accurate scale laid on it, giving us an idea of...
Bruce1 - Hi - my first port-of-call when faced with a Sheffield saw - that isn't obviously old - are searches here &/or Grace's Guide . . . ....
William Squire is recorded as having taken at least 3 apprentices; Charles Carless in 1754; Richard Knight in 1760 (each 15 guineas premium); and...
It is well-known that William Squire was explicitly succeeded in his saw-making business at 102 Wardour Street, Soho by John Peters - recent...
Interestingly non-identical 10" open-handed backsaws by THOMPSON GRIFFIN BEILBY&Co . . . . . [ATTACH]
NB - 1: Thomas Beilby, sawmaker, of Birmingham is the *petitioner* in this above bankruptcy notice, ie he seeks to make other folk bankrupt....
Our understanding of dates & so on can change, as further Directories become available: here are: "Richard Groves & Sons" in a column of the...
. . . I'm away from home & for some reason don't pop BSSM in my pack; but from what I recall (& from earlier in this thread) Simon Barley would...
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