Thanks for providing some of the missing information, Wiktor.  I was  
just bouncing off
Gary Roberts' original posting on the article, which--as I said--I  
had not seen.  The
only Jackson saws I knew about were the Disston-made second line.
	Tom Holloway,
thinking Pete might have an even better recollection of the One Son  
Disston ripsaw
he sharpened in the same batch, both picked up at Bill Gustafson's  
rib BBQ the
evening before the regional MWTCA meet at Hancock Shaker Village.

On Feb 15, 2008, at 6:27 PM, Wiktor A. Kuc wrote:
> This discussion needs a bit of clarification in my view.  It is  
> based on
> incomplete information and assumption that is based on that incomplete
> information.
>
> In aforementioned article Philip Baker talks about two different  
> Jackson
> saws.  One of them is Disston saw, branded Jackson.  The other are  
> a few
> saws made by William Jackson of Monroe, NY.  There is no dispute in  
> Phil's
> article that Disston's Jackson was lower grade and common saw.  The  
> saws
> with Eagle stamps on the spine are the saws made by Jackson of  
> Monroe and to
> these saws Phil refers as higher grade saws.  Both saws, Disston's  
> and W.
> Jackson's had similar, but not identical stamp on the spine - Jackson.

> Galoots,
>
> As Tom writes below, this sort of rationale doesn't make much  
> sense.  I love
> Phil to death, but it seems that sometimes he looks for meanings  
> where the
> only meaning is there is no meaning.
>
> And Tom, believe it or not, last century of not, I do remember that  
> saw.
>
> Pete (who's planning to come to PATINA this year)
>
> Tom Wrote:
>
> I haven't seen the article you cite, but here are a couple of quick  
> and
> informal reactions:
>         1)  Since Jackson was a second-tier brand name made by  
> Disston, any
> deliberate use of the eagle would be a Disston decision, not  
> necessarily
> generic to the world of saws at the time.  But if Jackson was below  
> Disston
> in the company's branding policies, why would there be the need to  
> indicate
> "better quality" Jackson saws?
>
> 
>
>         My Jackson backsaw (sharpened for me by Pete Taran back in the
> latter years of the 20th century--driveby gloat) has a keystone  
> outlined in
> the medallion nut, surrounded by tiny beads but with no
> text or other symbols.  On the steel back is stamped         JACKSON
> WARRANTED CAST STEEL USA in three lines, with no other symbols.
> There is no discernible etch on the blade.
>                 Tom Holloway,
>
>
>
> --
> Peter Taran
> Vintage Saws on the web at:
> http://www.vintagesaws.com
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