Photo Index - L. Power & Co. - No. 0 Patent Band Saw Machine

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Manufactured/Badged by:
L. Power & Co.
Philadelphia, PA

Machine Specifications
Machine Class:	Wood Working Machinery
Machine Type:	Band Saw
Machine Size:	36"
Submitted By:	Robert Bernstein

Machine Specifications
Description/Model:	No. 0 Patent Band Saw Machine
Date of Manufacturer:	estimated 1900
Serial Number:
Last Updated	9/1/2006 11:23:31 PM

Comments:

I have described previously how I was given this saw in the middle 1970's from the Sam'l J. Creswell Iron Works pattern shop in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the second floor of a now demolished building. We removed seven machines with a small crane from that shop and I brought the saw to my home in rural Vermont and stored it for approximately two years.(Actually one year in one of my barns and the next year in the barn of my wife's aunt--whom I have recently mentioned here as a previous owner of the John A. White planer I have just--August, 2006--purchased.) At that time I sold it to a neighbor, a builder, to whom I had already traded two of the other pattern shop machines. This was all previous to 1980, I think.

My neighbor no longer lives where his shop is but has sold his house and shop to his son, and still works out of the shop occasionally. In the twenty-five or so years since we did our trading a fair amount of things have changed. Both of us have lived through the deaths of our fairly young wives, for example. But he still uses the saw. Today I visited the shop for the first time in many years and took several quick photographs of this fine old saw.

The nice looking guards were made by neighbor when he purchased the saw.

As the L. Power manufactury was located only several hundred feet from the Creswell Iron Works and it is likely that the Iron Works purchased the saw new, it is probable that I know where this saw has been for all of its life of approximately one hundred years. I own a mid-twentieth century plan of the pattern shop showing the location of the saw prior to the Iron Works dispersal. I can recall the saw in place--and used it there in the middle 1960's--forty years ago--and have a small photograph--which I took--of it in situ there.

See http://www.owwm.com/PhotoIndex/detail.asp?id=3365 for another example of this saw and some discussion of the history of this maker and this saw. This model L. Power saw was listed in both the 1890 and the circa 1920's L. Powers catalogs.

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Comments: overall shot from back
Source: R. Bernstein

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Comments: overall shot from front
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Source: R. Bernstein

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