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Searjeant Metal Products, Inc.
Rochester, NY

Machine Specifications
Machine Class:	Wood Working Machinery
Machine Type:	Jig or Scroll Saw
Machine Size:	11"
Submitted By:	Larry Hampton

Machine Specifications
Description/Model:	light benchtop scroll saw
Date of Manufacturer:	1940s
Serial Number:	none
Last Updated	4/23/2013 8:02:11 PM

Comments:

4-11-2013: This showed up in the Denver CraigsList, owned by a retired carpenter. He had it for just a few years; no other history. No pressure foot, no blade, no motor. Mounted to a wooden slab from a Brown Show Company box. This saw shows up in a 1947 ad (thanks to Ed Nett), but the saw shown in that ad has two feet, and this one has only one, essentially a small pedestal. For that reason I am judging this to be an earlier model. The mechanism appears to move smoothly and there is no wobble.

4-22-2013: Edited. The rehabilitation of this machine was simple, and I decided that I was not going to put it into service as a scroll saw, so I didn't bother finding a motor and a blade. Just a cleaning and re-lubing of the gear box and strip and paint with salvaged rattle can paint (hence the goofy teal-ish color; at risk of being assigned the "clown colors" label) and clear lacquer on the polished-up unpainted parts. Since it is a pedestal mount, it required bolting to a platform, so I used the same old plank it was on when I bought it, and attached that to an old mining explosives box. Oiled with tung oil. Cannibalized a pressure foot from a Craftsman scrollie of the same era; fits just fine. Now that I have prettied this up, it will just be a decorator item, I suppose.

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Comments: Surface oil on the box is still wet.
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Photo 2:

Comments: Left side, as found.
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Comments: Left side.
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Comments: The mechanism is elegantly simple.
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