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A Garage sale find earlier this summer....Millers Falls No. 1816 MitreBox and saw.....Paid $1....needed to pull the nails holding the box to an old pine 2 x 8 plank.. Got to looking the saw over....Warranted Superior 4" x 16".....Hmmm, might be worth a rehab? (hide yer eyes, Mabel! ) And.. Shouldn't have to worry about any etch, would have been a silk-screened thing anyway...but...that handle needs ..something... Yeah...right. Traced a better looking pattern, bandsaw to remove the worst areas......Flex-shaft Dremel with several different sanding grit drums....LOTS of sanding dust...check the grip with my hands....refine as the hand tells me to....dig around in the "spares drawer" find a couple better looking bolts.....then a coat of stain... Look a wee bit better? Sanded the saw plate as clean as I could...polished the bolts.. Shows some improvement? Test fit back into the mitre box.. The old 2x plank is outside, sitting in the firepit. That orange sticker? Was their asking price...wound up paying just a dollar bill...at least the logo can be read... I think I was maybe 9 yrs old when this was made.....which means I also need to rehab the box... needs a new deck, this one is getting pretty chewed up...There is a spot ... That I'll need to copy....as that is where the uprights rotate in... That little yellow handle Irwin removed the bolts, 2 per fence piece.. More screws and a bolt...this is what the uprights use as a base...three lobe tightens things up, once an angle is agreed upon... Uprights, there is a captured square nut that sits inside the uprights. 2 more bolts...and the rest of the parts... Legs are separate pieces. ALL the wood screws appear to be the same....might have been out of the same bin? Have a decent looking Ash board in the shop....might just make a new deck out of it? Forstner bit to make that recess...THEN rip the 1 x 6 to width? Have already jointed one edge.. Stay tuned
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Had a few saws to work my way through. Brought home to "keepers" And a bunch for "parts" Sat down and tore down all the saws. Set aside the plates for the two keeper saws. Hardware headed for a good soaking Got the medallions out, and cleaned them up.. Which left this mess in the bowl.. I thought I had the correct handle for one of the saw plates.. D-16 handle......until I then cleaned the saw plate under it.. PACEMAKER....Keystone by Disston. had to dig through to find the correct handle for the saw.. Close as I could get. 1930s era saw. used to be a 7ppi, had been resharpened ( a few times) as a 8ppi. And restamped as an 8. I guess I can make some use out of it.. As for the second saw...had to find the correct handle, and the hardware.... As this was a bit older than the other saw. There are two etches on the cleaned plate I can read.. One of the left says this is a Disston No. 7 ...the one on the right claims this is the Property of the Bennington & Rutland Railway Co. Might be a "Keeper"? Almost forgot, out near the end of this saw.. That be a "nib" Maybe tomorrow, I can get something done in the shop.....
