Nice score

[Marvin Button]

This doesn't quite qualify as a glote but I think it was a pretty good score. I drove by a yard sale that had a sign saying tools so I had to check it out. Got all of this for $7.00.

[Al Launier]

Of course it's a gloat! And it should be! Good for you, that's a nice catch indeed!

[george wilson]

NOW you have the opportunity to make a new,nice,artistic handle for that saw!

Any brand name on any of those hand screw clamps? I haven't seen a handscrew with those little steel pieces where the screws come up out of the wood as on the clamp on the left. Are they there to prevent the wood from wearing from being in contact with the wooden jaw? Nice touch.

[Marvin Button]

I'll have to check the other 2 but the one on the right is a Jorgenson. I haven't seen one with those steel pieces either but I did notice that one of the screws that holds it in is loose so I'll investigate it further when I tighten it back up.

[Normand Leblanc]

I own a similar saw as the one you just bought. The blade is made out of horizontal strips. I have no idea of the manufacturing process to get that kind of blade. There is no identification on my saw.

Anyone has an idea how the blade was made and what company procudes it?

[george wilson]

The blade just has a DECORATIVE set of stripes ground on the surface. Not made of strips of steel.

[Andrew Gibson]

My Dad has a saw like the one pictured but his has a solid wood handle, not ply. His is from J C Penny. I always thought the stripes were an odd touch but it always seemed to be a decent saw.

[george wilson]

It has been many years,but I think Sears might have sold a striped saw,too. I guess the stripes were supposed to make the saw look fancy. Never cared for them. They should have spent the time on a nicer handle. But,the blades could just be run through a special surface grinder with a stacked set of thin grinding wheels on it. Those stripes might be so shallow that you can barely feel them.

[Joe Bailey]

I haven't seen a handscrew with those little steel pieces where the screws come up out of the wood as on the clamp on the left. Are they there to prevent the wood from wearing from being in contact with the wooden jaw? Nice touch.

I used to have a set like that -- they aren't wear plates, those are the fixed nut for the outboard threaded handle.
Note that unlike the inner handle, there is no circular nut embedded in the body for the outboard handle. (hope that makes sense)

[Jerry Olexa]

That was robbery..But good for you....

[Jim Koepke]

That is a nice score and worthy of a bit of gloating.

jtk

[george wilson]

Joe,what brand were your clamps? Indeed,I just noticed that the usual round nuts are missing on one set of screws. I wonder what advantage the makers thought making the clamps like that gave?

[Bill McNiel]

I have a saw like that, Craftsman from Sears that I bought in the late 60s (don't really remember much from that era as I was an active participant in most all that made the 60s the 60s). It was the first saw I purchased and it has remained totally rust proof through the years

[Joe Bailey]

Joe,what brand were your clamps? Indeed,I just noticed that the usual round nuts are missing on one set of screws. I wonder what advantage the makers thought making the clamps like that gave?

Hi George

The clamps are long gone, and the brand name long since deleted from my memory banks.

I too, am at a loss to explain the design modification over typical parallel jaw clamps.

EDIT: to add my theory

On a typical wooden parallel jaw clamp, the nuts for the outboard threaded handle (that one nearest the taper) are always further away from the meeting surface of the jaws than are the inboard nuts.
One possibility is that the maker chose his design to place the nuts (and thereby the pivot point) as far as possible from the jaws' meeting surface so as to allow the widest possible opening angle.

[Stew Denton]

Marvin,

No!, it is definitely a gloat. My standard statement in such cases: Ya did good!

Each of those handscrews is worth that $7.

Stew