. Canadian forest industries 1905-1906. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. Hanchett Band Saw Swage. to injure a smooth cutting saw. W ith these primitive tools such fitting consumed a vast amount of time with the disadvantage of weak corners. Next came the machine or eccentric swage. Here was a progression indeed. We have often noticed illus- trated advertisements of this tool with a supposed like- ness of the tooth produced. Some in fact do produce such a tooth and it may suit some filers; but it is not what I consider an ideal form. T
. Canadian forest industries 1905-1906. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. Hanchett Band Saw Swage. to injure a smooth cutting saw. W ith these primitive tools such fitting consumed a vast amount of time with the disadvantage of weak corners. Next came the machine or eccentric swage. Here was a progression indeed. We have often noticed illus- trated advertisements of this tool with a supposed like- ness of the tooth produced. Some in fact do produce such a tooth and it may suit some filers; but it is not what I consider an ideal form. The ductility of the steel from which saws are all made at the present day enables one to mould the point of the tooth into a shape which is absolutely ideal for mm work intended, provided of course that one has a swage of the proper make. I have found nothing equal to the products turned out by the Hanchett Swage Works, of Big Rapids, Mich. The steel is forced to a convex outline, giving strength clear across the cutting edge, and the lips are not thin and weak but have a sufficient amount of metal to add still further to strength. Nothing short 01 nails or stones break such corners. This swage allows for making a tooth with a long side cut, which is particularly adapted to gummy woods, or for making a pin pointed corner for hard-woods, and the spread may be obtained with equal facility in either case. But even with this tool, unless it is in the hands of a very expert workman, there will be found a slight variation in the spread of different teeth. This is not a mark of demerit, and detracts in no way from the value of the tool. Swages are designed to spread only, and when one has one that will perform the operation as quickly and as scientifically as the Hanchett swage, there should be no more desired. The company, however, being alive to the conditions of the lumber industry, have recently put on the market a swage shaper that makes a fitting companion to the swage. I think
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