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   Michael6255 | Jul 11, 2008 06:03am | #1

   I think that is a flooring saw that is designed so that you can cut into a flat surface with its arc. Mike

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   Clewless1 | Jul 11, 2008 06:34am | #2

   cut into the surface of the flooring? like for what?

   signed ... skeptical and bewillered

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   IMERC | Jul 11, 2008 06:55am | #3

   plunge cut saw...

   hand operated....

   and the plant looks thirsty...

    

   Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming

   WOW!!! What a Ride!
   Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!

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   dovetail97128 | Jul 11, 2008 08:35am | #4

   Right on both counts

   They can't get your Goat if you don't tell them where it is hidden.

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   IMERC | Jul 11, 2008 08:38am | #5

   but not the plant.... 

   Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->

   WOW!!! What a Ride!Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!

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   dovetail97128 | Jul 11, 2008 09:00am | #6

   Looks dead, not thirsty.

   They can't get your Goat if you don't tell them where it is hidden.

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   IMERC | Jul 11, 2008 09:09am | #7

   maybe it felt threatened by the saw and keeled over... 

   Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->

   WOW!!! What a Ride!Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!

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   bobbys | Jul 11, 2008 09:21am | #8

   Its an oily prototype of a cordless saw, The way i reached this conclusion is i see no cord.

   However even i can be fooled once in awhile

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   Sphere | Jul 11, 2008 01:49pm | #9

   Like the others have said, it's primarily for plank flooring. Hew the joists flat with an adze, flop a plank down, now saw by eye the joint over the joist.

   Also used as a panel saw, for starting a cut in the middle of a wide panel.

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   Piffin | Jul 11, 2008 02:03pm | #10

   That is the saw that Mohammed used to build a stand for the Koran

    

    

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   DonCanDo | Jul 11, 2008 02:08pm | #11

   Now that would be an interesting cartoon...

    

   ;-)

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   leftisright | Jul 13, 2008 07:41am | #34

   That would get Piffin killed and what would we do then?

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   MisterT | Jul 12, 2008 02:40am | #17

   Is your middle name Hussein too??.
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   MikeHennessy | Jul 11, 2008 03:05pm | #12

   I have always known this type of saw as a flooring saw for use in patching floors -- you use it to plunge cut the T&G between planks to remove the first plank without damaging the surrounding wood too much. Like an early version of the Multimaster!

   Mike Hennessy
   Pittsburgh, PA

   Edit: Cool handle on that one.

   
   

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   Edited 7/11/2008 8:06 am ET by MikeHennessy

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   BossHog | Jul 11, 2008 03:27pm | #13

   "...you use it to plunge cut the T&G between planks to remove the first plank without damaging the surrounding wood too much."

   That was my thought too....
   Defendant: Your Honor, I didn't get a fair trial - My Lawyer was incompetent.
   Judge: Sorry - Ignorance of the lawyer is no excuse.

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   wane | Jul 11, 2008 03:37pm | #14

   wow, I could have used that saw last weekend, I think your right, I had to flush cut out the floor along a wall.  It took 16 hours to do about 20 feet, then I went and got a multimaster .. (I'll bet that saw didn't cost $600) ..

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   McDesign | Jul 11, 2008 03:47pm | #15

   <Like an early version of the Multimaster!>

   Yep - the little-known "SingleMaster"

   Forrest - knowin' tools

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   greathelper | Jul 12, 2008 02:35am | #16

   Flooring saw. These tend not to be found in the tool kit of most DIY people as it is somewhat of a specialist saw being used only to cut across floorboards so that they can be lifted. The edge is curved, enabling a cut to be made across a board at the centre of a joist. When the blade has penetrated, the straight part comes into use, the end of the saw being narrow enough to enable it to enter a short cut.

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   WINSTALL | Jul 12, 2008 02:54pm | #18

   It is referred to in the Disston catalog as a flooring saw. They used to sell for
   $19.00 / dz.!!! Google the Disstonian Institute.... very interesting site for those who have interest.....

   As long as GOD makes "bad builders" and rich people... I will have a job
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   Clewless1 | Jul 13, 2008 03:08am | #33

   Very interesting indeed. Disston ... will stick in my head, now ... and soon as I get a chance I'm going to go through my 5 or 6 handsaws to check them out w/ a renewed eye and appreciation. I spent my childhood w/ projects struggling w/ saws. Never used a power saw until I was well into college. Lots of tree forts w/ nothing but hammers and saws and scrounged wood and nails. It was rare to use a new nail ... we always took nails out of found material and straightened them to use on our architectural marvels in the branches. Didn't really know what we were doing, but we did it ... now I more appreciate it.

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   doodabug | Jul 12, 2008 04:01pm | #19

   I have one of those that belonged to my dad. He told me he used it for cutting for floor registers.

   That would have been in the late 40's.

   E.C.Atkins Co.

   Indianapolis, In.

   Flooring Saw

   No. 100

   
   

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   Edited 7/12/2008 9:32 am by Doodabug

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   Sphere | Jul 12, 2008 04:12pm | #20

   Last house I framed, maybe in the 80's the HVAC guys used CHAINSAWS!! to cut the sub flooring out.

   I killed my Fien sander ( first gen Multimaster) doing that with the saw blade, first day it broke the whatcamajiggy thet makes it connect to the motor.

   I would now use a biscut blade in an angle grinder, scary as hell, but actually is easier than anything else short of a chain wheel on it.Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks

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   doodabug | Jul 12, 2008 04:25pm | #21

   I don't have those fancy tools.

   I don't cut for registers very often but when I do I use circular saw and jigsaw.

   How would a Multimaster be for unpainting windows the painters paint shut?

   Edited 7/12/2008 9:28 am by Doodabug

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   Sphere | Jul 12, 2008 04:42pm | #22

   I think it would work well. I know they have a scraper type blade ( toothless) that could work in the situation. I used to have a Red Devil "Window Zipper" it was a handled saw blade type thing that would cut the paint..I misplaced it or it was in the shop fire..I don't know for shure what became of it, nor have I replaced it.

   I Am doing quite a bit of this work just now, and have resorted to utility knife and 5-in-1 or 8-in-1 or what ever they are now..I carry a few in my bags and leap frog and wedge them with  a small weenie-bar and a Red Devil "Window tool" ( sort of a wide cats'pawl). The site is awkward to get ele. up to the windows ( Old recepts, no ground , on fuses..etc) and IF I could justify a cordless MM, I'd be there in a heartbeat.

   I'am at the point where I am not buying much else, nomatter whatt the allure or cost savings, I just can't keep up with what I already have..I mean I COULD pluginto the van inverter, and run a cord, but by the time I get the ladder off the van and get set up, I just want to be headed home ASAP..and do my magic in the shop, NOT spending all day getting out fancy cases, and cords and stuff..I can hammer the pry tools, and get down with awindow in one trip up..getting old and lazy I guess.Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks

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   MarkH | Jul 12, 2008 04:46pm | #23

   Too many tools can slow you down.

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   Sphere | Jul 12, 2008 05:09pm | #25

   Yeah, the old "lemme find a cord, lemme find a battey, lemme get this outta the truck..."

   I'm done, let's go.Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks

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   doodabug | Jul 12, 2008 04:59pm | #24

   You have to be lazy to be efficent.

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   Sphere | Jul 12, 2008 05:15pm | #26

   I believe you, it is working smarter, not harder. You and MarkH have touched on the same vein, too much hassle to do a simple job, with less.

   I learn from nature, nothing uses any more energy than required to do the job, hence my screename/business  a sphere is the most compact and best use of space, and a "MID" is a pyramid, which is triangulation, without which, there is no stability or resistance to exteranl forces..so combined, there is no complete failure in a structural sense.

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   Clewless1 | Jul 12, 2008 06:39pm | #27

   About the same time as my grandfather would have been doing something similar, maybe. I inherited his tool chest ... all hand tools. He built his house that way. Things were simple then and you had to put a lot of effort sometimes into achieving what we now do in seconds (e.g bore a hole for wiring or plumbing).

    

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   doodabug | Jul 12, 2008 07:32pm | #28

   My dad was a union carpenter and retired in 82.

   He only had 4 power tools then. A Skil wormdrive that was given to him by a contractor, a jigsaw, a 1/4" drill, and a table saw he bought in 62.

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   Sphere | Jul 12, 2008 07:33pm | #29

   I had worked for close to free at Col. Williamsburgh. Just a summer , as an apprentice, I'll tel ya what, it was an awakening, and toilsome one at that.

   First you have get "placed" into a field ( Imean I DID a Field, of hay) and then maybe you get to get hands on..IIRC we were re-building the blacksmiths shop wall, and went to Carter's Plantation for the trees..we hauled, hewed, and sweated our butts off, I mean sweated..90+degrees and 90+% Humid, in Colonial Garb ( My wife sewed my clothes, I'm 6'4" the available stuff was for short guys)..it was hell.

   But adding in the goat skin wine sack, we did a good job.

   I live in an OLD log home, circa 1850 +/-  and seeing the tool tracks is impressive, them boys knew how to work..I mean WORK to make a house, and then make it a HOME.

   This platform framing and ICFS is great for them that don't mean I wanna BUY or LIVE in the house, it's the $$$ and speed. I Think I bought a time capsule, that some men poured thier hearts and soul into, maybe fighting injuns or a coming bad winter, ( they used the natural signs like we do google)..them old tools, well worn and dull, neglected, was /is what we were..hard crafted, and smart.

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   rez | Jul 13, 2008 12:57pm | #35

   Quit talkin' so much sense.

    

   be I ain't accustomed to it 

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   Sphere | Jul 13, 2008 02:38pm | #36

   I'll get right on it.Spheramid Enterprises Architectural Woodworks

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   Jeff_Clarke | Jul 13, 2008 04:00pm | #37

   I looked but didn't see that saw in any of the old Disston catalogs - by the way here is a really interesting compilation of old catalogs back to the 19th century - http://www.roseantiquetools.com/id16.html

   Old Disston catalogs - http://www.roseantiquetools.com/id57.html (fair warning - up to 7 MB PDFs

   Jeff

   Edited 7/13/2008 9:03 am ET by Jeff_Clarke

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   doodabug | Jul 13, 2008 04:41pm | #38

   Look for a D18 Flooring saw. It doesn't show the pointed end like mine from E.C. Atkins

   Edited 7/13/2008 10:07 am by Doodabug

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   BillHartmann | Jul 13, 2008 08:38pm | #39

   I userstand that in old homes they would go up or down with the romex (or AC) from receptacle to receptacle. only 2 holes to drill instead of a maybe 6-8.But used 1/3 more copper..
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    IMERC | Jul 13, 2008 02:09am | #30

    but what about the plant....

     

    Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming

    WOW!!! What a Ride!
    Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!

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   Clewless1 | Jul 13, 2008 02:46am | #31

   I bought it 'cause I sawed it on TV. nyuk

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   IMERC | Jul 13, 2008 03:06am | #32

   ROAR!!! 

   Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->

   WOW!!! What a Ride!Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!