Photo Index - Goodell & Waters - tilt table

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Manufactured/Badged by:
Goodell & Waters
Philadelphia, PA

Machine Specifications
Machine Class:	Wood Working Machinery
Machine Type:	Table Saw
Machine Size:	16"
Submitted By:	Robert Bernstein

Machine Specifications
Description/Model:	tilt table
Date of Manufacturer:	circa 1890-1900
Serial Number:	shop no. 3706
Last Updated	8/13/2007 4:41:50 PM

Comments:

I was given this table saw by my father, a part owner of the Samuel J. Creswell Iron Works in Philadelphia, in about 1978 and brought it up to Vermont and, in about 1980, installed it in small woodshop I built there. The photographs--taken August, 2007--are in this shop, which I have not used since March, 1998.

I trucked the saw the four hundred miles up to me home in about 1978, bringing the saw and other pattern shop items tucked around it in a Ford F-100: I was quite proud.

I bought a heavy used three horse power refrigeration motor, made a driving pulley to fit the motor shaft and belted this up. I mounted a magnetic starter on the wall and a push button station on a moveable wooden post (visible in photograph 1). Later, I changed driving pulleys.

The table saw is shown on a late 1940's floor plan of the Creswell pattern shop and is listed in a 1951 appraisal of the Iron Works. I one Polaroid 1970's shots of this table saw in situ in the disused Iron Works pattern shop. In a sense it has been in my family's hands since my father brokered the deal for the Iron Works in 1952. I suspect the Iron Works purchased this lathe quite a few years prior to these dates.

'Goodell & Waters Philada' is cast in the heavily flanged base casting. There is also a brass 'shop no.' tag (and I will provide the shop number when I next have the opportunity. The saw has its rip fence, faced in mahogany, and its miter gauge. The table size is approximately three feet by four feet. I always thought the base casting as handsome as anything I had ever seen.

I used the saw extensively for about eighteen years. In 2004 in a computer search for 'Goodell & Waters' I first saw the OWWM.com web site and learned more about the maker of this saw: though I'd had the saw for all that time I had never had any information about the maker.

More photographs of this fine machine are available. I have also saved photographs of another of this model saw, and have a catalog cut (courtesy of M. Burian, who outbid me for the catalog which was sold here in Vermont) of this model saw.

Photo 1:

Comments: overall from operator's end
Source: R. Bernstein

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Photo 2:

Comments: manufacturer's name and shop tag
Source: R. Bernstein

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Photo 3:

Comments: overall from top , showing rip fence
Source: R. Bernstein

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