Creative Woodworks & crafts 2005-04, страница 73

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The Duiigo, made in the 1800s, "is one of die most desirable of all treadle operated machines. It is rare, with only four

Tills is die Empire made by Senaca. You had to pump with each pedal to run the saw, so you bud both teet moving all of the time.. This is the heaviest saw in my collection, at approximately 200 pounds. 1 don't know if there was an optional stool or uol, but you need one because 1 can see no way this saw could have been run without sitting down.

1 also have a pretty extensive collection of modern scroll saws which includes many of the major, eomrnonly-known brands. These come in very handy for the monthly meetings, held at my shop, of the small scroll saw club ( belong to. In all, there ate eleven saws that llie club uses, including a number of Deltas, DeYVali. Eclipse. Fxealibur. Hegner, and RB Industries. Do you think I have, enough saws? Heck, no! 1 like them all and am always looking for others 1 don't have yet. Plus, when someone has a question about a saw, 1 can just go out to the shop and look at a saw to help come up with the right answer.

If you ate ever driving through Iowa on Interstate 80 near Des Moines, you are welcome to stop in and see my shop and scroll saw collection. 1 get visitors from all over the country, and I'm sure you will leave with a lot of things to think about. Most folks find the place interesting, but the old saws are still my favorite part.

To contact. Rick, send an. SASE to: Rick Hutcheson, 109 N. Ewing, Box 237, Crimes, Iowa 50J1J, or email him at ric47©icrollsct h-.v. com.

examples known. And what makes this one even more unique is die W.M. Sears, Toronto cast into the upper frame." according to Ken Cope, author of American foot Power and Hand Power Machinery. It is a beautiful machine that is substantially built, but this otie's missing (he link between the treadle awl drive wheel.

This was purchased from an estate sale and proves that not all ideas were successful. Someone tried to make a foot-powered saw from the part Ihey had purchased. The problem is that the saw the.y started with was a Champion that had been part of a wood lathe set, arid the. way it was built means that the drive would only pull the blade down, and there is no way to pull the blade back up. I found it interesting to obttiin this saw only to find that it would never be able to work!