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Henry Disston & Sons, Inc, advertisement in the Saturday Evening Post, 1921, listing the products offered by the company at the time. Disston Saw Works was an American company owned by Henry Disston that manufactured handsaws during the mid-19th to early 20th century in the Tacony neighborhood of Philadelphia.
Henry Disston (May 24, 1819 – March 16, 1878) was an English American industrialist who founded the Keystone Saw Works in 1840 and developed the surrounding Tacony neighborhood of Philadelphia to build housing for his workers. His company became the Disston Saw Works and was the top manufacturer of hand saws in the United States during the ...
The company made handsaws from the beginning (1760); in 1833 Henry Disston, a toolmaker, emigrated to the United States and in 1840 started manufacturing saws.The Disston "skew-back" saw was introduced in 1874 and Spear and Jackson also introduced a skew-back design in the late 19th century, with one example being their 1887 Jubilee Saw.
Dunbar, Michael (1979), Antique Woodworking Tools: A Guide to the Purchase, Restoration and Use of Old Tools for Today's Shop. London: Stobart & Son ISBN 0-85442-014-2 OCLC 16477599; Gaynor, James M. & Hagedorn, Nancy L. (1993), Tools: Working Wood in Eighteenth-Century America.
A wide array of edge and boring tools provides a broad survey of hand tool-making from prehistory to today. Writing in The Times, Huon Mallalieu encapsulated the function of the book: "Over the past 35 years [David Russell] has amassed probably the world’s largest collection of antique woodworking tools from the Stone Age to the 20th century ...
The most popular material for handles of hand saws is applewood; in the early 1900s 2,000,000 board feet of applewood were used annually for this purpose. [2] Sometimes cultures developed two main types of saw teeth: the cross cut saw teeth and the rip saw teeth. [citation needed] These cut into the wood using different mechanisms.
Disston may refer to: People: Hamilton Disston (1844–1896), American industrialist and real-estate developer; Henry Disston (1819–1878), English American industrialist who founded the Keystone Saw Works in 1840; Horace Disston (1906–1982), American field hockey player; Places: Disston City, Gulfport, Florida, USA
Saw. Crosscut saws to cut timbers to length and in making joints. Japanese saws are special saws used in woodworking including timber framing; Axes were sometimes used to cut timbers to length and in joinery. Hatchet; Adzes are of many shapes and names. Framing Chisels are heavy duty. In Western carpentry common sizes are 1 1/2 and 2 inches wide.