Some details about Disston Products

10:31 AM 10/6/2022

Note in many of the following catalog pages there is a suggestion that the image is full size. All images have been scanned in and the size that is available here may or may not have a close relation to the actual saw teeth.

Full Catalogs as PDFs

I have placed the full PDFs of the catalogs that I extracted pages from. I obtained these catalogs from the Internet Archive. many times there many false leads,(Chet Atkins works come to mind).

The pages are JPGs which are single pages and load quickly. The PDFs have to be fully loaded before a program that can process a PDF files can render them. However in the PDF files there is more data that the small amount that I decided would be useful here. Many times the full significance of what each individual page displays is best understood my reading the full catalog.

Items in this section are arraigned by approximate date of publication. Some of the documents are quite long so I indicated their length. Longer files may take too long to load and thus I have made an attempt to provide shorter versions.

The "Carolan Core" document contains much early hardware information and its publication date is mostly a guess.

The "Disston 1917 catalog" is quite complete and has extra back ground information.

The "Grimshaw" document contains much useful background information items about saws.

  1. Henry Disston and Sons abt 1879, 11 pages, PDF
  2. An old hardware catalog that contains Disston saws about 1879? 440 pages, PDF
  3. Henry Disston and Sons 1891 Catalog, 34 pages, PDF
  4. Disston Handbook on Saws 1912, Contains much information about saws. 92 pages, PDF
  5. Disston Saw in History 1916, 72 pages, PDF. This, and some similar documents, is a reason that Disston is a relatively well know saw maker.
  6. Disston Handbook on Saws 1917, Contains much more information about saws. 224 pages, PDF
  7. Disston ca1919 Cross Cut Saws, 57 pages, PDF
  8. Sharpening Crosscut Saws 1922 30 pages, by the USFS, PDF
  9. Disston Tool Steel Catalog 4-S 1923, 52 pages, PDF
  10. Disston 1932 Catalog, 122 pages, PDF
  11. Disston Ltd How to Set and File Your Saw before 1900? 2 pages, PDF
  12. How a Disston Hand Saw Is Made 1922, 12 pages, PDF
  13. Saw Filling by Grimshaw, Basic information about saws, 1912, 172 pages, PDF

Special Information

  1. Disston Handbook on Saws 1917
    1. Table Showing Value of Disston Wire Gauge
    2. Making of the Disston Cross-Cut Saw, Information
    3. Making of the Disston Cross-Cut Saw, Information continued
    4. Making of the Disston Cross-Cut Saw, Information continued
    5. Disston Cross-Cut Saws, Introduction
    6. Cross-Cut Saws, Different Patterns of Teeth, Cougar, Wizard, Great Southern, Nevada Perforated Oregon, Oregon
    7. Cross-Cut Saws, Different Patterns of Teeth continued, Oriole, Diamond Point Vim Champion, Lancet, No 1 Great American, Champion, Lumberman
    8. Cross-Cut Saws, Different Patterns of Teeth, Perforated Lance, Diamond, Plain, Tenon, Tuttle
    9. Imperial Cross-cut Saw Tools, Introduction and instructions
    10. Imperial Cross-cut Saw Tools, Instructions continued
    11. Imperial Cross-cut Saw Tools, Instructions continued

  2. disston-ca1919-cross-cut-saws
    1. Imperial Cross-Cut Saw Tools, Introduction
    2. Imperial Cross-Cut Saw Tool, Instructions
    3. Imperial Cross-Cut Saw Tool, Instructions continued
    4. Imperial Cross-Cut Saw Tool, Instructions continued
    5. Hammer and Anvil, Instructions
    6. Instructions for Fitting Cross-Cut Saws with Saw Tool
    7. Instructions for Fitting Cross-Cut Saws with Saw Tool, Illustrations

  3. Disston Tool Steel Catalog 4-S 1923
    1. Heat Colors
    2. Table Showing Value of Disston Wire Gauge
    3. Table Showing Value of Disston Wire Gauge, continued
    4. Table Showing Value of Disston Wire Gauge, continued
    5. Decimal Equivalents

Handles

  1. Henry Disston and Sons abt 1879
    1. Crosscut Saw Handles

  2. Disston Handbook on Saws 1917
    1. Disston Handles for Cross-Cut Saws.

  3. disston-ca1919-cross-cut-saws
    1. Sectional View No. 122
    2. Cross-Cut Saw Handles
    3. Care of Cross-cut Saws, Information

  4. Disston 1932 Catalog
    1. Cross-Cut Saw Handles, 100, 101, 102 1/2, 103, 108, 109, 110 1/2, 113, 119, 120
    2. Cross-Cut Saw Handles, 118, 123, 124, 128, 126, 127, 218, 222, 318, 418

Tools

  1. Catalog none, Disston D3 Filing Guide
    1. Improved D3 Saw Clamp and Filling Guide

  2. Catalog 1891, Henry Disston and Sons 1891
    1. Swages, 1, 2, 3
    2. Patent Cross Cut Handles, 1, 2, 3, 4, Tabs, One Man Handles, Saw Gauges
    3. Patent Revolving Saw-Set 1, 2, Garland Saw-Set 1,Sampson Saw-Set 1,2
    4. Saw Clamp, The Bully Boy, Star Saw Set, 1, 2, 3

  3. Catalog 1912, Disston Monarch Saw Set
    1. Monarch Saw-Set

  4. Catalog 1917, Disston Handbook on Saws
    1. Conqueror Swage, Jumper or Upset
    2. Anvils, Hammers and Straight Edges for Repairing Saws, Hammer and Swage Bar
    3. Star Saw-Set
    4. Monarch Saw-Set
    5. Triumph Saw-Set

  5. Catalog 1932, Disston 1932 Catalog All 93
    1. Hand Saw Jointer, Saw Clamps, Saw Sets, 1, 2, 8, 10, 12, 18, 28, 280
    2. Saw Tools, 10 Imperial Set, 20 Universal Cross-Cut Saw Tool

Saws

  1. Henry Disston and Sons abt 1879
    1. Crosscut Saws, includes non-Disston

  2. Henry Disston and Sons 1891
    1. Great American Tooth, Lumberman Tooth, Diamond Tooth, Fleam Tooth, Lancet Tooth, Electric Tooth, Champion Tooth No 1, No 2, No 3, Tuttle Tooth
    2. Plain Tooth No 1, No 2, No 3, No 4, Hook Tooth, No 2, Humbolt, California, Toledo Blade
    3. Triumph Narrow Crosscut Saw, Great American One Man Skew-Back Saw, Champion Tooth, Ice Saw

  3. Disston Handbook on Saws 1917
    1. High Grade Saws, Virginian, Suwanee
    2. Felling Saws, Cougar, Nevada, Triumph Toledo
    3. Beaver (Hollow Back), One-Man Cross-Cut with Supplementary Handle

  4. disston ca1919 cross cut saws
    1. Suwanee, Virginian, 289, 495
    2. Zip, Kennebago, Buzz, 270, 288, 470
    3. Oriole, Beaver, 489, 494
    4. Great Southern, Diamond Point Vim Champion, 285, 287
    5. Lancet, Lancet Perforated, 365, 477
    6. Lumberman, Diamond, 1, 1
    7. Champion, Tuttle, 1, 1
    8. Tenon, Plain, 1, 1
    9. Great American, Toledo, 1, 599
    10. Triumph Champion, Triumph Great American, Triumph Toledo, 286, 386, 598
    11. One Man Cross-Cut Saws, No 1, No 2, Lance Perforated
    12. One Man Cross-Cut Saws, D10, D210, Four Cutter, Two Cutter
    13. Great American, Extra Champion, 1, 373
    14. One Man Cross-Cut Saws, No 2, No 3, Champion, Keystone Champion
    15. Plain, Lumberman, 191, 281
    16. Patterns for Pacific Coast Use, 498, 499, Felling, Bucking
    17. Cougar Felling, Cougar, 448, 449
    18. Falcon Felling, Falcon, 298, 299
    19. Nevada Felling, Nevada, 496, 497
    20. Oregon, Lancet, 475

  5. Disston 1932 Catalog
    1. Precision-Ground Cross-Cut Saws, 495, 289, 470, Suwanee, Virginian, Buzz
    2. Precision-Ground Cross-Cut Saws, 472, 270, 494, Henry, Zip, Beaver
    3. Precision-Ground Cross-Cut Saws, 288, 471, Kennebago, Henry
    4. Precision-Ground Cross-Cut Saws, 7-11, Felling, Bucking
    5. Taper-Ground Cross-Cut Saws, 117, 496, 497, Nevada Felling, Nevada Bucking, Cut-End Perforated Lance (Old No 479)
    6. Taper-Ground Cross-Cut Saws, 400, 144, 184, Ozark (Old No 260), Lumberman (Old No. 1)
    7. Taper-Ground Cross-Cut Saws, 114, 124, 122, Lance Perforated (Old No 477)Great American (Old No 1, 2)
    8. Taper-Ground Cross-Cut Saws, 174, 172, Tenon Tooth, (Old No 1, 2)
    9. Taper-Ground Cross-Cut Saws, 162, 164, Plain Tooth, (Old No 1, 2)
    10. Narrow Cross-Cut Saws, 224, 254, 264, 234, Triumph Great American (old No 368), Champion (Old No 286), Plain (Old No 284), Diamond (Old No 364)
    11. Narrow Cross-Cut Saws, 334, 354, 364, 324, Keystone Triumph Diamond, Champion, Plain, Great American
    12. One Man Cross-Cut Saws, D-410, D-420, Cedar, Savage
    13. One Man Cross-Cut Saws, 414, 554, 524, Lance Perforated (Old No 2), Champion (Old No 2), Great American (Old No 373)
    14. One Man Cross-Cut Saws, 574, 564, 654, Tenon (Old No 2), Plain (Old No 191), Keystone Champion (Old No 3)
    15. Cross-Cut Docking and Ice Saws, 664, 196, 1, Pond Ice Saw, Docking Saw, Keystone Plain (Old No 198)
    16. Hand Ice Saws, Anvil, Hammers, 73, 75, 80, Hand Ice Saw, Setting Anvil, Swaging Hammer, Setting Hammer