John,jsburger wrote:Yes I know that and I am not referring to your post. My question still stands.RFGuy wrote:John,jsburger wrote:So were there tilting arbor saws before the 1940's? Certainly not for the home hobbyist.
Are you referring to my post with the Boice patent? If so, that is a tilting table in the patent, not a tilting arbor...
Sorry, I misunderstood. Well, from the online book that I referenced, tilting arbor table saws were coming into the home by the mid 1930's (see quote below). I guess the original tilting arbor patent was from 1876, so it took quite a while for it to filter into homes from factories. Of course, I don't know how common these were in actual homes of the average American in the 1930's (versus a select wealthy few). Another comment the author makes in that book is that the whole DIY movement took off following WWII.
"Sears Introduces Its 8-in Tilting Arbor Bench Saw in 1937
By the mid-1930s, home shops were being fitted out with tilting arbor circular saws, all-be-it compared to today, scaled down. For example, the 8-in Sears tilting arbor bench saw -- advertised with a big ad and image on page 66 of the March April issue of Home Craftsman -- splashed onto the home workshop scene. And HC itself got into the spirit by presenting a two-page spread of photos, with captions, showing several "tricks" that the tilting arbor saws could do to help amateur woodworkers achieve better results with their projects. Unfortunately, with the small size of and lack of clarity in the HC photos, readers had to resort to their imaginations for visualizing much of what these demonstration photos depict."
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