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  0 Thread: Why is a W. Butcher plane so expensive?
Post: RE: Why is a W. Butcher plane so expensive?

Admiral Wrote: (09-15-2017, 07:53 PM) -- Butcher made the iron. The plane was made by someone else, who, I don't know, but the old tools cognoscenti appear to know, hence the high price. -- The abil...
ButImeasuredtwice Woodworking Hand Tools 13 10,520 09-15-2017, 09:50 PM
  0 Thread: A Rehab day
Post: RE: A Rehab day

I think that "thing" is a pretty uncommon Woodrough & McParlin patented keyhole saw.  All you should have to do is sharpen it.
ButImeasuredtwice Woodworking Hand Tools 11 7,952 06-21-2017, 03:56 PM
  0 Thread: Any hand saw horders here?
Post: RE: Any hand saw horders here?

Clearly no hoarders here, but there sure are a lot of collectors!
ButImeasuredtwice Woodworking Hand Tools 24 13,770 12-09-2016, 10:08 PM
  0 Thread: First attempt at making a saw handle
Post: RE: First attempt at making a saw handle

The saw shown in post #5 is certainly not an early Disston # 10.  I have heard that Pete Taran had an etched # 10, which I've never seen.  Since the etches came in in the mid 1860's, it's possible tha...
ButImeasuredtwice Woodworking Hand Tools 18 11,778 10-08-2016, 01:45 PM
  0 Thread: First attempt at making a saw handle
Post: RE: First attempt at making a saw handle

Disston made a #10 handsaw early on, probably in the 1850s.  They usually had 5 cone head screws and a handle like the 12's or the 99's.  I have one of those and another with just 4 cone head screws a...
ButImeasuredtwice Woodworking Hand Tools 18 11,778 10-08-2016, 12:31 PM
  0 Thread: Brown Tool Auction
Post: Re: Brown Tool Auction

There are 35-50 tables inside and, with the foot of snow expected, probably no one tailgating outside. But I could be wrong. It's a M-WTCA meet and it opens at 7 I think. I won't be there since I'd...
ButImeasuredtwice Woodworking Hand Tools 4 7,481 01-19-2016, 07:27 PM
  0 Thread: What yr range would this saw be from?
Post: Re: What yr range would this saw be from?

Disston used a die stamp like the one on your saw until about 1864 or 5, when he began to use etching to mark his saw blades. So that would make your saw pre-1865. But just how pre- I couldn't say...
ButImeasuredtwice Woodworking Hand Tools 2 5,307 10-17-2015, 10:01 PM

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