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The Toolemera Press
Hand Tool Mfg., Of All Sorts • 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 •
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Booklet HOW A DISSTON HAND SAW IS MADE. 1922. Nice coverage of the mechanical and hand processes involved in the manufacture of Disston Hand Saws.
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Booklet SUGGESTIONS ON THE CARE OF SAWS, BY C.C. TAINTOR: INVENTOR OF THE TAINTOR SAW SET. TAINTOR MFG. COMPANY, 113 CHAMBER STREET, NEW YORK. 1908. Mr. Taintor proudly shows us how best to set a hand saw using his invention.
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Booklet HOW TO FILE A HAND SAW. 1916. The Simonds Manufacturing Company. An elementary introduction to the use and care of hand saws for the boy (or girl) carpenter.
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Booklet HOW TO SELECT, USE AND CARE FOR BITS. 1939. The Irwin Auger Bit Company. Excellent coverage of the Irwin line plus tips on care. Check out a few of the lesser known types of auger bits.
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Booklet CONCERNING HANDSAWS: SOME HINTS ON THEIR CARE & MAINTENANCE. Spear & Jackson: The World's Greatest Sawmakers. Aetna Works, Sheffield. c1950 Reprinted 2006 the Traditional Trades Group, Inc. Spear & Jackson's take on how their handsaws are made and how best to care for them.
Contributed by Peter Evans of the Oldtools eMail list.
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Booklet SERVICING YOUR SAWS. W. Tyzack, Sons & Turner LTD. Little London Works, Sheffield c1950. From the British view, how to care for your saws. To use these techniques, you have to know how to set your saws with a hammer. No saw sets for this lot.
Contributed by Paul Womack of the Oldtools eMail list.
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Booklet STANLEY: HINTS ON USING A STANLEY PLANE. c1940. I guess that the British didn't warrant as fancy a pamphlet as the one produced for Australia? Proof that this is not a reproduction is the rusty outline of a Stanley block plane.
Contributed by Peter Robinson of the Oldtools eMail list.
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Booklet STANLEY: HINTS ON USING A STANLEY PLANE. c1950. An Australian version of the Stanley Hints pamphlet. Perhaps planes work differently in the southern hemisphere?
Contributed by Peter Robinson of the Oldtools eMail list.
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Booklet Record Tools: For Service and Satisfaction. c1953. Yes, part of this one page, folded booklet is upside down. That's what happens when companies want to save money and go for folds instead of staples.
Courtesy of Tony Blanks, Tasmania.
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Booklet Stanley Tools In Cabinets, Boxes and Sets. The Stanley Rule & Level Co. c 1921. Read it and weep. They don't sell sets like these anymore.
Courtesy David Clapp.
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