Copyright None of the original material presented here is subject to copyright, you may use freely, provided that you attribute the source. (can you say plaugerism). Other copyrighted material presented here will be attributed to the source, and where I can I will contact the copyright holder to seek permission. If you find anything here which you believe is infringing on your copyright, let me know and it will be removed.

Copyright is a very confused and difficult area, most of the issues revolve around questions relating to "fair use", in this respect, this site seeks to follow "best practice" as far as it is known to me. Main points are, this is a non-profit site, with educational bias, most of the information presented here is of a factual nature (except my opinions), and I will honour any requests to remove any material that is brought to my attention that is infringing on someone else's copyright.

Who pays the bills? This site is run as a, not-for-profit exercise on my own behalf, you won't see any advertising here, donations are neither sought nor accepted.

I am semi-retired and I have a lifelong interest in woodworking, lately I have gotten interested in 19th Century British Saws. Hopefully this site will be of some small benefit to others.

July 2008 Ray Gardiner

About this web site

The files

1. Saw data This is data about various saws that I have been able to examine. It includes type, weight, length and pictures. Most of these saws are for sale.

2. Saw tools and handles. All of these sections include: pictures, sizes and weights. This information is in two data sets, one set is in "normal defination" for faster loading, the other uses "high definaton" images for more details but loads slower. In both sets of images if an image is clicked on the identical full data about thst item will be displayed. All of these tools are for sale.
   1. Gauges: metal thickness,and spider gauges.
   2. Saw hammers and wrests.
   3. Saw handles.
   4. Miscelanious specialized saw tools.
   5. Saw jointers.
   6. Saw sets.
   7. Setting stakes.
   8. Swages.

3. Detailed information on saw tools This data consists of 25 differnt PDF documents, usually from tool manfactures about using saw tools.

4. Detailed saw data. This is detailed information about saw handles and saw manfactures' cataloges from Atkins, Disston and Simmonds.

5. Saw Manufacturer's Catalog Extracts. This is an extracted collection about Saw Gauges, Saw Tapering and Various tables.

6. The Larry Harris Collection in memory of Don "Doc" Clare Jastad On facebook I saw an tem from "Larry Harris's Collection" of saw data. I messaged him saying that I would be willing to host the collection. He said that it would be ok and I made an attempt to totally download the collection. It is now here with some of my additons.

7. Other documentation and data files. This set of data consists of four general aress of informaton:
   1. General use documents.
   2. Off site links.
   3. Items copied from Dolly Chapman's web site.
   4. Miscellaneous links.

8. A collection of over 1,200 patents related to saws. I noticed that many of the older saw tools, etc. had patent information in/on them. Here is what I could find from checking patent numbers with the US Patent Office. Because I searched several times based on varous patent number sources, I found multiple copies of the same patent and several times found non-saw related patents. I decided that I might as well put them all here with the "extras" might be of some use or not.

9. Various interesting items. Just what it sounds like:
   1. Information from Blackburn Tools.
   2. "Old Jimbo's" web site which has gone "404" and is no longer available. Mostly about Axes.
   3. An active conversion chart.
   4. EBERLY list of, sometimes, unusual measures.
   5. Southern wood conversation factors.
   6. KanCol, a web site containing interesting items about Kansas.
   7. Information about how to work with and encourage voulnteers which comes from Canada.

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