Photos Backsaw • Mitre Box

Miller '72 · Jun 29, 2018

I may need to sharpen sooner than later but I will give several test cuts today and go from there.

The absolute despair that someone might express upon knowing their mitre box & back saw were tossed for nickles...the set is complete, fully and properly functioning and other than saw dust, oil and surface rust, excellent condition each.
The 244 is missing one spring for the rear upright. Fortunately the front upright still has its spring and today i hope to get a match and buy 4. 2 for now, 2 for the apocalypse

The teardown, clean, lube and reassemble

Beautiful engineering...fuzzy pic but the uprights, front and back are ruler marked for setting presice depth

Reassembly

An upgrade for sure...but still in the family. A distant cousin but family

Square_peg · Jun 29, 2018

Great rebuild! I appreciate all the pics. It's built like a tank.

Miller '72 · Jun 29, 2018

Square_peg said:
Great rebuild! I appreciate all the pics. It's built like a tank.

Thank you!
This shows its age proudly and I am proud to have it now. Damn I wish my grandfather could see this, that kind of proud.

This was exciting to rescue, a passion and pleasure to resurrect and I am stoked to use it and show it off!!

Thanks again

Miller '72 · Jun 30, 2018

I did find the springs late yesterday afternoon and I did buy 4...at $.79 a piece I felt I could buy extras that I should never need, but will have if I find another of these beauties down the line...or if the apocalypse hits.
I installed the new springs, put the other 2 plus original in my save it for later drawer and gave a few test cuts and put the final adjustments to the uprights for straight, verticle cuts.

I also found this little gem of a boys handle, 28".

I thought I would take the old cutting board, sand and stain, permanently mount the mitre box to it so I can store and transport and clamp anywhere.

Next up, sharpen the Disston Back Saw

jblyttle · Jun 30, 2018

That pic of the new one...it's like a man's tool next to a toy.

jblyttle · Jun 30, 2018

Miller '72 said:
An upgrade for sure...but still in the family. A distant cousin but family

Does that say Playskool anywhere?

Miller '72 · Jun 30, 2018

jblyttle said:
That pic of the new one...it's like a man's tool next to a toy.

jblyttle said:
Does that say Playskool anywhere?

LOL!
It will after I get my sharpie

Miller '72 · Jun 30, 2018

Would you lookey here!!
These past 5 years that I owned this beauty...I never once noticed this stamp...I'll be damned

Square_peg · Jun 30, 2018

Proudly made in USA!

quinton · Jun 30, 2018

As a boy I remember my father bringing his miter box into the kitchen every night if he was doing trim work. The next morning he would load it up and head back to work.

Square_peg · Jun 30, 2018

At my first carpentry job we hand nailed everything, trim, framing, siding, sheathing, everything. But at least we had a powered miter bow. We didn't have cordless drills back then and a 3/8" VSR drill was the cat's ass.

quinton · Jun 30, 2018

I think it was the late 70's when we bought a Rockwell miter saw. We bought a compressor and framing nailers back in the early 80's, but sold them after framing only a couple of house's. People just didn't trust them, nails were hard to find, and the owners didn't want to pay the price for the nails. Back then around here most builders took a house for labor only, and the owner supplied the materials.

I trimmed houses until the early 90's with a hammer and nail set.

quinton · Jul 1, 2018

My son picked this Disston up for me at a recycling center awhile back, it's brand new, but no way to date it that I know of. On the same load of "junk" the saw came in on was an all metal Black and Decker reciprocating saw, new in the metal case with paper work. The guy at the center wouldn't part with it, though.

phantomknives · Jul 1, 2018

awww, they got rid of that forward notch in the handle

Old Axeman · Jul 1, 2018

quinton--if the handle screws are aluminium (they look to be) I bought one exactly like that in the mid 80's. I bought one like it with steel screws in the early 70's.

phantomknives · Jul 1, 2018

i'll have to get my miter box looking a bit better, it's incredibly similar to all your stanleys but no plaque. you all have already seen the saw, i posted it a few months back in the CC saw thread

quinton · Jul 1, 2018

Old Axeman said:
quinton--if the handle screws are aluminium (they look to be) I bought one exactly like that in the mid 80's. I bought one like it with steel screws in the early 70's.

I'll check those screws out, Bernie..
I really haven't looked it over very well, I just put it away when it was given to me, but I kinda figured late 70's to early 80's.
Thanks!

Miller '72 · Jul 1, 2018

quinton said:
As a boy I remember my father bringing his miter box into the kitchen every night if he was doing trim work. The next morning he would load it up and head back to work.

I am humbled and in a way proud that the mitre box rescue allows you to recall such a fond memory of your dad, and that you would share it. Thank you Quinton. This mitre box has had me thinking alot of my own dad and grandad.

phantomknives · Jul 1, 2018

sorry to hijack your thread a bit miller but i cleaned up the old guy, not as well built as yours, no wood on the platform and no springs. I'v looked into it a bit deeper and found that this box, is a millers falls no. 74C langdon acme, the funny thing about this is, i already had a langdon saw. until tonight i didnt know i had a matching set.

now there's a few stamps that lead me to believe this box was made in 1964 and the independent saw has a 1917 era medallion on it so there's the difference in age. as for quality, i think you can decide for yourself on that one.

Miller '72 · Jul 2, 2018

phantomknives said:
sorry to hijack your thread a bit miller but i cleaned up the old guy, not as well built as yours, no wood on the platform and no springs. I'v looked into it a bit deeper and found that this box, is a millers falls no. 74C langdon acme, the funny thing about this is, i already had a langdon saw. until tonight i didnt know i had a matching set.

now there's a few stamps that lead me to believe this box was made in 1964 and the independent saw has a 1917 era medallion on it so there's the difference in age. as for quality, i think you can decide for yourself on that one.

That's a sweet mitre box, Millers Falls, you cant go wrong there. Just solid tools.
The Langdon saw and mitre box is a wicked nice set, I like the similarities between the two different makers...just trying to make the same proven design their own, to stand out to the consumer.

I am drooling over both your backsaw lol!