An Interview with Carl Bilderback

[Slav Jelesijevich]

Somebody you should know, it's an hour long and you'll see some great tools.

Slav

http://blog.lostartpress.com/2014/09/20/...its-place/

[Cian]

[Steve N]

Slav, thanks for posting

[MarvW]

Thank you Slav!

Like a good book, I just couldn't put it down.

[shoottx]

MarvW said:

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Thank you Slav!

Like a good book, I just couldn't put it down.

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What Marv said!

[sawnuts]

Slav,
Thanks for your work on this.

A great tribute to a great man.

I hope he sticks around a while. There are still a few rare tools for him to discover.

The world needs more people like Carl.

Mark Kuzee

[Slav Jelesijevich]

Thanks for the kind words. There is some bad news, Carl has cancer and is doing chemo right now so this is a difficult period for him. Hope this cheers him a little. He has helped a lot of people in his life.

Slav

[Cian]

Slav Jelesijevich said:

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Carl has cancer and is doing chemo right now so this is a difficult period for him.

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Sad news.

[Skogs]

Thank Slav. Much enjoyed.

Skogs

[JClark]

A couple of anecdotes about Carl to help you better understand him, in case Christopher's article didn't cover everything.

Carl is one of the foremost experts on W&M panther saws. Up until he got sick, he would perform repairs for free on any Panther saw sent to him by a MWTCA member. He did nice work and helped restore a lot of saws this way.

Cari is a big Atkins collector. I once found a dead-mint Atkins saw with a never before-seen model number- a really weird one. I bought it for a good price, thinking of Carl. He was excited when he heard about it so I offered it to him for what I paid for it. I sent it off and got a check a few days later for the price of the saw plus $100 because "it was worth at least that". Likewise, Carl once bought an ultra-rare Harvey Peace saw on eBay that wasn't described very well. he paid the guy the buy-it-now price plus $100 because the saw was worth it.

He's just a good guy.

Josh