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Manufacturers Index - Woodworking Machinery Co.

Woodworking Machinery Co.
Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
Manufacturer Class: Wood Working Machinery

History
Last Modified: Dec 17 2010 4:41PM by Jeff_Joslin
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Report of a combination tablesaw, jointer, and planer, with this name cast into the base. The machine is described as being pre-World War II. Another combination machine from this company is a combination tablesaw, bandsaw, jointer, and lathe.

Information Sources

  • A correspondent reports a machine has a 10 inch table saw, 6 inch jointer, shaper, 36 inch lathe, mortiser, and bandsaw; the machine had "Electric Carpenter" cast into the base, with this company's name on a brass plaque. That combination suggests that the machine may have been manufactured by another company - perhaps Carpenters Machinery Co. or Messinger Manufacturing Co.
  • A website for a Los Angeles woodworker mentions that his father's "mainstay machine is a combination saw, jointer, band-saw, mortise, lathe, and shaper called The Electric Carpenter, bought new by my grandfather in 1922". This pushes back the date of the Electric Carpenter, but it is not known who the maker was of this version of the Electric Carpenter.