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Montague Woodrough was a teeny company compared to the big boys like Disston and Atkins. When their patent ran out, it was pretty much their death knell. And that’s why you won’t see a lot on them.
Warren Bundy the inventor, on the other hand, is all over the place with patents. He was granted three patent on sept 04, 1888 for basically the same idea of using the two cutters and a raker with a large gullet. It applied to handsaws, circular saws, and tree felling saws. One was for application on a two man Buck saw for tree felling. The first two on the day differed mainly in the angle of the large gullet. I think he did this to prevent people from tweaking his design to get around the patents. The assignees are Bundy, Woodrough the saw maker, and Otto Troost. Hence the BMT name for the saw.
It isn’t unreasonable to assume various rake angles for the large gullet. The back saws show a less agresssive rake, and we just don’t have a catalogue to know for sure.
Your saw looks to me like the 388,821 patent drawing.
We do know the saw handle profile was a favorite of Woodrough. He went on to form a saw company with a guy named McFarlan, where an equally rare “Panther” handled saw was produced. There are probably more fakes of this saw than real ones. Here is one carved on what sure looks like Disstons patented D12 handle grip pattern. Note the detail of the top of the saw, which is essentially the BMT profile.
And I don’t think it is the much later Bowdon saw from Sheffield England. The handle doesn’t look any more like your saw that the Brooklyn tool Works saw Gramercy markets. The BMT was never a farmer’s saw. Not with the work that went into the handle.
- This reply was modified 4 years, 5 months ago by Larry Geib.
- This reply was modified 4 years, 5 months ago by Larry Geib.