I'm taking the first few steps on compiling information on Erik Anton 
Berg tools. In the process I found some old posts from 1998-2000 by Tom 
Johnson on this list. But he has obviously changed email address since 
then and I can't find him.

Please send me a note:
* if you are Tom "bergmadman" Johnson, or know where to find him
* if you have a special interest in EA Berg tools or any other 
(woodworking) tool manufacturer from Eskilstuna, Sweden.

Thanks,

     /Fredrik
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On 11/9/2011 2:31 PM, Fredrik Viklund wrote:
> I'm taking the first few steps on compiling information on Erik Anton 
> Berg tools. In the process I found some old posts from 1998-2000 by 
> Tom Johnson on this list. But he has obviously changed email address 
> since then and I can't find him.
>
> Please send me a note:
> * if you are Tom "bergmadman" Johnson, or know where to find him
> * if you have a special interest in EA Berg tools or any other 
> (woodworking) tool manufacturer from Eskilstuna, Sweden.
>
> Thanks,
>
>     /Fredrik
I know next to nothing about these tools but, I recently bought some of 
those chisels (off a notorious auction site), & I would like to know 
more, because I like them.

My only other old Swedish tool, apart from relatively modern Sandvik 
scrapers, is an 8 point skewback crosscut saw, marked Trollhattan No. 
100, made by A-B STRIDSBERG & BIORK, Trollhattan, Sweden (now 
better-known for Saab and Volvo Aero).

The etching depicts waterfalls or a spillway with a powerline running 
across. As best I can make out, it reads as follows:

" This saw is the latest product from the
best and largest saw factory in Sweden.
Guaranteed against all defects in material
and in workmanship. Made from highest
quality Swedish alloy charcoal steel."

Below that is a graphic circle showing a galootish fellow with framesaw 
working at a sawbuck.
And below that, the ubiquitous "Reg. Trademark"

The heel of the sawplate is marked "U 7T 8P"

I would really like to know more about it, as it currently has no 
handle, having none when I found it, whenever that may have been. I'd 
like to replace it with something near to the original, so if you happen 
upon one with handle, I'd appreciate a photo. I've never seen another.

Hope you are successful in tracking down information and people in the know.

Don

-- 
I hear, and I imagine; I see, and I understand; I do, and I remember forever. fr
om R.A. Salaman, Dictionary of Woodworking Tools

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On 11/9/2011 11:22 PM, Ray Gardiner wrote:
> Deviating slightly from Berg's  for a moment....
>
> > On 11/10/2011, "Don Schwartz" asks about Swedish Saw Makers  Stridsberg and 
Biork...
>
> > Here are some pictures of the factory workers relaxing, and some nice circul
ar saws..
> http://www.tommyfotografen.se/?s=Stridsberg
>
> > And Some information on the company history... depending on how good your Sw
edish is, you might want to try google translate.
>
> > http://www.trollhattan.se/Startsida/Naringsliv/Tillstand-regler-och-tillsyn/
Fororenad-mark-och-byggnad/Stridsberg--Biorck/
> http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stridsberg_%26_Bi%C3%B6rck

Thanks! Somehow my searching missed that. I was getting hits to 
Swedish-language sites, but couldn't seem to find anything relevant on 
them...
Don
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Deviating slightly from Berg's for a moment....

On 11/10/2011, "Don Schwartz" asks about Swedish Saw Makers Stridsberg
and Biork...

Here are some pictures of the factory workers relaxing, and some nice
circular saws.. http://www.tommyfotografen.se/?s=Stridsberg

And Some information on the company history... depending on how good
your Swedish is, you might want to try google translate.

http://www.trollhattan.se/Startsida/Naringsliv/Tillstand-regler-och-
tillsyn/Fororenad-mark-och-byggnad/Stridsberg--Biorck/
http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stridsberg_%26_Bi%C3%B6rck

Here's google's translation.. fwiw...

Stridsberg & Bi=F6rck was a firm that was founded in Torsh=E4lla 1868 ,
but in 1879 moved production to Trollh=E4ttan

Hydropower in Torsh=E4lla is limited and the blades took a lot of energy
in addition to the human. When the engineer Ernst Stridsberg came home
from a business visit to USA in 1876 and was told that no sawmill in
Trollh=E4ttan was for sale, he went from Gothenburg and bought the
Gull=F6fors plant site and its proportion of . All machinery and
equipment in Torsh=E4lla factory with workers and their families were
shipped off in two leased vessels and were transported by the River
G=F6ta directly to Trollh=E4ttan. In the first factory in Trollhattan
had to steel mills and close the iron mills and 1885 installed hearth .
In 1907 we achieved for the first time one million dollars in turnover.

Stridsberg & Bi=F6rck came to run the business with electrical furnaces,
rolling mills, Production included blades, machine knives. 1917 , the
company exports to 1.2 million. We had 35 engineers, officers and
supervisors and employees 450 workers. During the recession, the number
of workers dropped to about 200 ( 1 935 ), for 1945 to rise to 310 In
1966 again, there were 425 workers at Stridsberg & Bi=F6rck, 1984 140th

"Stridsbergs" ,"Battle's", as it often called in the vernacular, had
made his earliest factory premises in the Gota River , and the ruins of
these can be seen today in the case furrow . Later they moved to
K=E4llstorp on the west side of the river just north of the railway
bridge. Bi=F6rck, which are contained in the company name, was a young
engineer who helped start the company but soon left the partnership.

Ernst Stridsberg resigned as CEO in 1918 and was succeeded by engineer
JO =C5qvist. Premises that remains today is used by some smaller
companies.

Regards Ray

>
>My only other old Swedish tool, apart from relatively modern Sandvik
>scrapers, is an 8 point skewback crosscut saw, marked Trollhattan No.
>100, made by A-B STRIDSBERG & BIORK, Trollhattan, Sweden (now better-
>known for Saab and Volvo Aero).
>
>The etching depicts waterfalls or a spillway with a powerline running
>across. As best I can make out, it reads as follows:
>
>" This saw is the latest product from the best and largest saw factory
>in Sweden. Guaranteed against all defects in material and in
>workmanship. Made from highest quality Swedish alloy charcoal steel."
>
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On 11/11/2011 6:10 PM, Charlie Driggs wrote:
>
> On Nov 10, 2011, at 12:58 AM, Don Schwartz wrote:
>
> The heel of the sawplate is marked "U 7T 8P"
>
>
> That part is a 'gimme'
>
> It's pretty common to stamp the tooth pitch on that spot, and 7 tpi = 
> 8 ppi
Understood 7T 8P but not "U" . Also reported it because I'd never noted 
the size stamped on a sawplate, presumably by the manufacturer. Why 
bother? Or was it an owner?
Don

-- 
I hear, and I imagine; I see, and I understand; I do, and I remember forever. fr
om R.A. Salaman, Dictionary of Woodworking Tools

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On Nov 10, 2011, at 12:58 AM, Don Schwartz wrote:

The heel of the sawplate is marked "U 7T 8P"

That part is a 'gimme'

It's pretty common to stamp the tooth pitch on that spot, and 7 tpi =  
8 ppi

Can't add much for the rest of your questions.

Charlie
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