At a tool auction last week I acquired the long one, and had merely to envy the owner the short one. The latter is fairly self explanatory – I...
This is a poor saw, extremely light, with the thinnest brass back still able to support a blade, a wormeaten handle and certainly of no potential...
Our museum saw collection has just benefitted from the generosity of a tool enthusiast (thanks, Peter!), who has let us have an 18th century back...
It's something of a truism that it is impossible to identify the real maker of a factored saw, unless of course the maker gives it away with his...
Can I appeal to the collective for thoughts about the toothing on this backsaw? [ATTACH] It is at first glance no more than a nice 14inch brass...
We all are aware of saws made by person 1 and marked also with the name of person 2. This double marking can take many different forms, but is...
Can anyone help me with dating this saw? (It's not mine, unfortunately…) It's a 12in grafter, and the mark reads Thompson, and nothing else. The...
I know this website is primarily interested – and rightly – in high quality items, but it may be worth thinking from time to time about the rest...
This is the name given in the old catalogues for what would now be called a hacksaw. I'm not very sure how I came to acquire this one, as all the...
That book spends a lot of space telling us that Walter Fearnehough (fern-ee–huff) claimed to make nothing but machine knives, and, more than that,...
A new partnership to me. I am guessing – I hope correctly – that these two were Richard Bradley (1832-1836) and Henry Hanbury (1832-1841). Both...
Before the British, flushed with the success of their collectivist endeavours from 1939-1945, decided to nationalise their railways in 1948, there...
This nice little 9inch iron-backed saw was begging to be taken off a dealer's table at a recent sale, so I obliged, but only, you all understand,...
I'm alas not the lucky owner of this, but I've borrowed it to get pictures and am showing it here for a collective ogle. There were two men of...
Somewhere in the rather distant past there was a discussion about arrised handles, to which I contributed a rule that I can now break: backsaws...
I came across this image, which was originally printed in a magazine in Berlin in April 1939. The words are a later addition. :)
This saw was entered in a recent auction. The auctioneer not knowing what it was, fell back on the standard "small gentleman's saw"; he was led...
If you're an ornamental wood turner, the name Holtzapffel (getting better at spelling it now) is one to conjure with, but tie it to Deyerlein and...
Recently I was sent the following pictures, with the following story: "My wife and I recently had some work done on our home in [place omitted...
This is at first glance a very unexciting saw, but I got excited when I first glimpsed the mark on US ebay (had to wait 4 months for it until our...
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