Can You tell me what is this for?
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Frankj
your comment has no basis in fact — Disston never specified any of their backsaws as a “carcass”, “sash”, “tenon” or any other specified-name saw.
There was the No. 4 backsaw, and the number 77 (no-set required) backsaw. They came in various lengths and depths, but no attempt was made to call them anything other than backsaws.
Disston also made half-back saws, gent’s-handled dovetail saws, open-handled dovetail saws, and brass-backed backsaws, but there’s no mistaking the OP’s saw for one of these
I have (9) Disston catalogs from the early 1900s through the late 1940s. The ONLY saws featuring a relieved (cut-away, angled) heel plates are the miter saws.
Attached is an excerpt from the 1926 catalog — read the copy concerning the truncated heel, (referred to in the copy as the “butt”)
Iam sorry Joe should have checked with you first,but some of us have a bad habit of classing saws as to useage, I have the catalogs it was new when I revived it and the postage was 3 cents I just like keeping them I don’t study them, don’t have time have Back orders for custom chesssets and chess tables. Only six to get done now and four custom saws to make I would normally say one Reagan back saw two small dovetail ten inch and a twenty inch panel saw. But as you know saw makers don’t class saws I hope sometime to have time to study the old catalog’s and the hundred or so books I have collected over the past sixtey years or so not certain I forget a lot of important things
Fj
Well I was wrong it is a mitre saw and a fine job you did on the handle, looking at the emblem it’s dated between 1897-1917 irrespective of what year that catalog is dated this emblem was produced between those years. Great find.