Photo Index - Crescent Machine Co. - 32" Band Saw

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Manufactured/Badged by:
Crescent Machine Co.
Leetonia, OH

True Manufacturer:
Silver Manufacturing Co., Salem, OH

Machine Specifications
Machine Class:	Wood Working Machinery
Machine Type:	Band Saw
Machine Size:	32"
Submitted By:	Mark Fitzsimmons

Machine Specifications
Description/Model:	32" Band Saw
Date of Manufacturer:	1903
Serial Number:	3683 (View SN Registry Entry)
Last Updated	11/13/2006 3:32:03 PM

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This is an old bandsaw which I restored in 2000. It is probably about 100 years old, but not positive of the birth date. Crescent machine made the castings, and the saw looks exactly like the 32" saw in the 1903 Crescent catalog I found on the Old Woodworking Machines Website, but only the Silver Mfg Co plate was visible when I got it and the Crescent Machine letters were ground down and painted over.

The motor and pulleys are additions I put on. It was originally used with a line shaft and 4 inch leather belt. There was no blade guard when I got it, and the old catalog seems to show that only the downward moving portion of the blade used to have one. I made a new guard out of oak. The base, tool/switch/light box and pulley mounts are also oak.

The double badge was a bit of a mystery. The crescent words in the casting were ground down and painted over with thick stuff to hide it and were revealed on sandblasting. Silver probably bought the castings when they were just starting and hadn't designed their own yet. The base and all other castings are distinctly Crescent, not at all like the Silvers on the website, so I'm listing it under Crescent.

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