Photo Index - Walker-Turner Co., Inc. - Driver Line

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Manufactured/Badged by:
Walker-Turner Co., Inc.
Jersey City, NJ; Plainfield, NJ

Machine Specifications
Machine Class:	Wood Working Machinery
Machine Type:	Jig or Scroll Saw
Machine Size:	24 inch
Submitted By:	Darrin Oilar

Machine Specifications
Description/Model:	Driver Line
Date of Manufacturer:	approx 1930
Serial Number:
Last Updated	7/12/2004 12:00:00 AM

Comments:

This machine was acquired in late May of 2004. I picked it up from a friend of the family who was having a huge estate sale of his late father-in-law's years of obsessive compulsive hoarding. I thought it over and decided against buying the scroll saw, as I'm not much of a scroll saw guy, and dont really have the room, the time for a restoration or a need for a scroll saw. Plus the blade size seemed awfully long for most scroll saws and I was worried about finding blades to fit. The one that was on it looked to be from a band saw. Later in the evening he called to say if I wanted one, to come pick it up for free. Now free suddenly made me think that it'd be fun to do another restoration and bring another old tool back from the brink of death. I went down the next day and picked it up.

The restoration, which is not a true restoration as I had no inclination of figuring out what it would look like when manufactured took only a few days. First I cleaned and stripped/sanded as much paint off as I could. The saw was COVERED in blue paint. I cleaned out all the threads with a tap and die and painted, lubricated and cleaned everything that i could get to.

The saw got a coat of Hammerite blue/grey, with metallic silver and black accents. The table was going to be too much work for my impatient tastes to restore. It had a chip out of the front and moderate pitting. I decided to make a sub table for it out of birch banded with cherry. Blades didnt prove as difficult to find once i shifted my focus away from scroll saw blades. I found what i was looking for in coping saw blades cut to the correct size.

The machine turned out pretty nice. Interestingly, I've not seen another with the super high rise arm. It runs and cuts pretty nice and i dont know that I could ever scroll saw something that would slow down the half horse motor. The table does vibrate a bit and i may work out some sort of brace to help stabilize it.

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Comments: before resto
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Comments: after resto
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Photo 3:

Comments: Closer shot showing table
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