Object number
52/291
Description
This hack saw was used by the donor, who was a weelwright of Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire. The most common way of making hacksaws in the past was to take a piece of an old scythe blade, fit a handle to it and made a saw edge by knocking the blade with a file, thus making a serrated edge.
Physical description
1 sawe (hack): wood; metal
Archival history
MERL 'Catalogue index' card – ‘… // DATE ACQUIRED: // GROUP: // NEGATIVE: // PERIOD: // PLACE OF ORIGIN: // NUMBER: // DESCRIPTION: …‘ This hack saw was used by Mr. Caleb King, a 90 year of wheelwright of Great Missenden, Bucks... The blade measures 18 inches in length and its back has been strengthened with a metal rib rivetted onto the main body of the saw with seven rivets. The wooden handle fixed onto the blade by a metal ring is 6.5 inches long and is cracked along its length. //
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