We have little information on this maker of woodworking and sharpening machinery. They were known to be in business by 1945 and survived until at least 1980.

Information Sources

• Undated catalog of sharpening machinery and gang rip saws; The catalog is very roughly from 1970.
• Ads in 1955-56 and 1964 Hitchcock's Wood Working Digest Directory.
• Mentioned in passing by Planers, Matchers and Molders in America, Chandler W. Jones, 1980, as a company that made planers and/or matchers during the short-lived boom for those machines after WWII.
• A correspondent sent us the following note regarding a Dependable M148 molder.

  Years ago in the late 90's i worked for a company in Atlanta GA which had 2 of these moulders I ran on a daily basis. They were definitely pretty wild to see for the first time. They had been running the same profile since the company was founded back in the 1930's. I have no idea of the date of manufacture, but they were old enough to have 3 inch wide grooves worn 1/4 to 3/8" deep into the bedplates from daily use over the years. It's entirely possible the machines you have photos of may have been the exact machine I ran if you can trace it to a company in Atlanta (now out of business) called Southern Door Lite. There was a parent company called Shannon Display which was run into the ground by its owners and took my company with it. The Door Lite company re-opened as "New Southern Door Lite", and in the time between the closing and reopening, both moulders were sold off and i never knew where they went. Time frame for this would have been around 1994-1997.