A 1900 ad shows this firm's 42" bandsaw, which was unusual for using a wooden post rather than an iron frame. The ad also claims, "Largest makers of back knives for gauge lathes in the world." They also made round safety cylinder cutter-heads. Their specialty, however, was machine knives and cutters, especially those for chair and furniture factories.
Information Sources
- 1900 ad from Wood Craft magazine.
- A genealogy web site mentions an Ernest Erford Gage, born 1877-06-15. In the 1920 census he was living in Gardner, MA, and was married with no children.
- June 1910 Wood Craft. "Catalogues and Circulars—A new price list of machine knives and cutters is forwarded by the E. E. Gage Mfg. Co., Gardner, Mass. The company makes high-grade knives for chair and furniture factories and for use on such machines as back-knife lathes, shapers, Waymoth lathes, planers, molders, dowel heads, beader matchers, groover matchers, spoke machines, etc. Hundreds of shapes of knives are made by this company for regular and special work."