Vintage Disston Tool Instruction Guide and Manual

THIS VINTAGE TOOL GUIDE BOOK IS ACTUALLY THE DISSTON SAW, TOOL AND FILE MANUAL. It is a nifty booklet showing the saws and tools that the Henry Disston and Sons, have been making for over a hundred years. It is likely from 1945 as that is the most recent dated picture. It also says 1840-1845, 105 years. The section with dates tells the Disston story and highlights. Then it turns to telling you How to choose and use Hand Saws, Rip Saws, Cross-Cuts saws, and shows all the different saws. Then it tells How to choose and use Back Saws, as well as showing the back saw, mitre box saw, dovetail saws. How to choose and use small saws, the compass saw, the interchangeable saw, plumbers compass saw, nest saw, keyhole saws, bead saw, stairbuilders saw, pattern maker's saw, disston veneer saw, coping saw. How to sharpen the hand saw. Tools for refitting handsaws including the hand saw jointer, filing guide and clamp, triumph saw set, star saw set. How to choose and use circular saws as well as refitting small circular saws. How to choose and use band saws. How to choose and use hack saws, and use the right blade. How to choose and use files, standard cuts of file teeth, as well as a few types of disston files. How to choose and use hand tools including mitre squares, try square, bevels, cutting gauge, mortise gauge, levels, scrapers, sharpening scrapers,and other Disston tools: plumbers saw, flooring saw, pruning saw, lopping shear, lopping shear, hedge shear, hand pruner, grass shear, garden trowel, wood saw, trowels, cross cut saw for curved taper grinding. There are 48 pages with pictures of all the old tools you have collected. SIZE is 5" X 7 1/2". CONDITION IS VERY GOOD with a few bent corners and slight cover wear.