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Mark Wyatt
07-13-2010, 10:14 PM
SWMBO brought this home for me today because she knows I like old tool chests. She thought maybe $18 was too much to pay.

Any idea on the use of the saw in the last picture?
george wilson
07-13-2010, 10:59 PM
A broken off keyhole saw that someone has tried poorly to make into a flooring type saw that you can start through a thickness of material without a hole??? I think that type chest is a pattern maker's chest,though I have seen one in use by an old time furniture maker/repairer. It wasn't his only chest,though. He also had a proper carpenter's chest. Workers acquire odd things as they go along.
harry strasil
07-13-2010, 11:17 PM
I agree with George!

Here is an atkins floor saw.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v81/irnsrgn/wood/floorsaw.jpg
Steve Dallas
07-14-2010, 6:47 AM
I agree with George!

Here is an atkins floor saw.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v81/irnsrgn/wood/floorsaw.jpg

And I thought there was no Western equivalent to the Japanese mitsubishi azhibiski, whatever, whatever floor saw....

Learn sump'n new every day.
Greg Crawford
07-14-2010, 10:42 AM
On Pat Leache's list this month was this Disston beading saw. Maybe it was used for that?
Mark Wyatt
07-14-2010, 4:37 PM
A broken off keyhole saw that someone has tried poorly to make into a flooring type saw that you can start through a thickness of material without a hole??? I think that type chest is a pattern maker's chest,though I have seen one in use by an old time furniture maker/repairer. It wasn't his only chest,though. He also had a proper carpenter's chest. Workers acquire odd things as they go along.


Darn. You were suppose to tell me it was a super rare, one of a kind, worth a million dollars saw. :D

Thanks for the info.