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Various things that I have found while examining Crosscut Saws

Updated: 9:24 PM 1/25/2026
What I have written. Prviously some of this information was in several different locations on this web page. I have gathered, and expanded, them all here.
  1. Discussion about the various Gauges that Crosscut saws use.
  2. Grids to use in describing the exact shape of Crosscut sawes' teeth. There are two pairs of grid types. One is for use with inch or metric measurments. The other pair uses either thick or thin line in the grids. It is anticipated that thes forms will be rinted out and used as method of determining specific data about a saw.
    1. All grids in one deocument.
    2. Grids with thin lines and inch measurments.
    3. Grids with thick lines and inch measurments.
    4. Grids with thin lines and metric measurments.
    5. Grids with thick lines and metric measurments.
    6. Forms to determine the number of teeth per inch of a Crosscut saw.
  3. Information about Atkins Crosscut saws.
    1. Information that I reloaded from Atkins's catalog about their saws in web format.
    2. Information that I reloaded from Atkins's catalog about their saws in text format.
  4. Basic reference data. Please note that I have used gnuplot for plotting variuos gauge information. gnuplot does not understand gauge sizes of "00" (double aught), etc. so I had to use negative numbers when the metal size gage/gauge got less than 0.
    1. Data that I have "improved" from the Sizes.com web site
    2. Gauge information from Brown & Sharp catalog No. 29
    3. Extracts from one of the Grimshaw books about saw gauges
    4. Gauge information from the Handbook of Chemistry and Physics.
    5. Gauge infomation for Mechnical Engineers from the Kent's Mechanical Engineers' Handbook.
    6. Gauge information for Mining Engineers from the Mining Engineers' Handbook.
    7. Gauge information from the Starrett catalog.
  5. Specific Saw Manfacturer's data
    1. Athins
      1. Information about Atkins saws.
      2. Various versions of infomation about Atkins' saw teeth. Atkins listed tooth information differently in different catalogs. Here I have marked the different data in "blocks" and then merged/sorted all of that data together into a single list. Sometiomes the same saw number will have different tooth dimensions in different catalogs.
    2. Disston, under construction
    3. Simonds, under construction
  6. Misc data
    1. A list of recomended things to read.