Saw-set, Hancock, MA

Object ID:

1959.11105.1

Community:

Massachusetts, Hancock

Description

Saw-set of steel with shaft with offset end and thumbscrew. On portion of shaft in line with handle a thumbscrew and brass washer holds an anvil with six different sized projections (for different sizes of saw teeth). Another thumbscrew is fit into a tapped hole in shaft which pushes the underside of the anvil away from the shaft, presumably to allow for different saw blade thicknesses. The saw-set is set into a between-centers turned maple handle with a brass ferrule.

Massachusetts Hancock

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