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hickory n Steel:

--- Quote from: john k on February 04, 2023, 09:08:06 AM ---The Disston saws,and most other brands have an etch on the side shown facing up.   This is the provenance of the tool, and abrasive cleaning, even heavy wire brushing can ruin it.   Seen too many messed up.  The quick way to discover a saws age is the handle.  The loop at the bottom,  it became thicker, bulkier after wwii.  The older the saw, the thinner this bottom loop is.  Which unfortunately made it prone to breakage.   From my reading, the steel used after wwii was often remelt.   No essentially bad but often not of the quality of what was used pre-war.   Discovering all this made hand saws all the more interesting.  To the point it became hard to pass one up.   Just dont look in my shop.

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Disston saws and many others are dated by the handle medallion.
The etch is usually very hard to read if at all on older saws with decent rust.
Handles can give clues to age, but you would need to know what to look for.

I had a Craftsman saw ( broken plastic handle and missing teeth) that was very deeply etched or stamped into the steel which I've never seen before, you could actually feel it and I've never seen that before.
I don't know who made the saw for Sears, but it seems like it had been a relatively nice saw at one time in spite of the handle being plastic.

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