Minor Gloat & Question

[Mark Wyatt]

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]

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]

I agree with George!

Here is an atkins floor saw.

[Steve Dallas]

I agree with George!

Here is an atkins floor saw.

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]

On Pat Leache's list this month was this Disston beading saw. Maybe it was used for that?

[Mark Wyatt]

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.

Thanks for the info.