Photo Index - Baldwin, Tuthill & Bolton - bandsaw guides

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Manufactured/Badged by:
Baldwin, Tuthill & Bolton
Grand Rapids, MI

Machine Specifications
Machine Class:	Wood Working Machinery
Machine Type:	Other
Machine Size:	No. 0 & No. 1
Submitted By:	john reiland

Machine Specifications
Description/Model:	bandsaw guides
Date of Manufacturer:	1916 to 1919
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Last Updated	11/2/2011 12:58:57 AM

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These guides were on a 36" West Side Iron Works bandsaw. They are badged Machinery Company of America. I consulted with Jeff Joslin and he informed me that Baldwin,Tuthill & Bolton manufactured the guides for Machinery Co. of America. Sure enough, there is a B T & B imprint (faint, but it's there), cast in the body.
B T & B and West Side were both in Grand Rapids MI, so these are probably the saws original guides.
I still have the saw and plan on restoring it at some point, so these guides will be re-habbed and put back on the saw. They are very similar to Wright guides. The smaller grey guide is stamped No.1, the larger guide is stamped No.0, but according to an old ad the larger the number the larger the guide. Maybe the thumbwheels got switched, they are identical. Roller style guideblocks may have been later add-ons, but there is a machined recess for them, so I'm not sure.

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