Creative Woodworks & crafts 2005-03, страница 45

Creative Woodworks S Crafts March 2005 • 45

This is a hand-operated saw built by Hobbies in England. The saw has two pulleys, one for handwork and another'for power.

Notice the two C clamps cast into the frame for mounting the It uses wood arms and thumbscrews on the blade clamps.

saw to a table. continued on page 46

axle and the base is a brake drum. It was made in the early I930's from parrs that would have all been found in a home shop. Notice the unique drive system coining from the back of the saw. This pulley drives a shaft up to the front blade clamp, and then has an eccentric drive hub to cause the blade to move up and down. This is truly a different way to drive a saw, and I have never seen anything like it on any of the manufactured saws.

This is another totally homemade saw. The growth rings in Even the pulley is cut by hand from three layers of wood. The blade the table indicate this may have been built at the turn of the century, holders arc bent bars of steel with slots cut for the blade to be inserted

into, and the top blade clamp has been attached with a wire wrap. Some of the wood seems newer and could have been replaced.

Notice the multiple springs used for the spring-loaded blade return n the top of the saw. I have no idea why the haft was made so tall with so many springs.