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With a nod to the Epic Thread, there are hopefully enough hand-tool enthusiasts out there to address a LJ topic area that's lacking: the venerable mitre box. Stanley, Langdon, Goodell Mfg, Miller's Falls, etc. What you got? What you want? Questions? Dreams? Boxes and saws for them, post it all below!

REFERENCES THAT MAY BE USEFUL:
-http://tooltrip.com/tooltrip9/index.html
-https://sites.google.com/site/langdonmitreboxes/home/gallery/millers-falls/langdon/74
-For those of you who follow such things, please note that the Langdon Mitre Box Reference web site is migrating to Wordpress.com from Google Sites.

The URL of the new site is: https://langdonmitreboxes.wordpress.com

-And this post from Doc Bailey on Stanley 150 boxes.

Here's my go-to, a Stanley SW #346, Frame 3:

How about yours? Love mitreboxes!

 

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How about a big honkin' (ugly?) Craftsman? Needs some love:

Saw handle design at it's nearly worst:

 

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JB- I have a cast iron 10" Craftsman chorded miter that does the framing cuts. Wouldn't do without it! But I also love working with hand power when the situation permits. Thanks for checking in!

 

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Anyone out there have a resource that explains the "Frame" numbers in the Stanley world of mitres? Has to do with the height of the paired rods, front and back, and as a result the depth of cut possible, but that's all I've discovered to this point…

 

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Kat, thanks and it's a blast to use. Not for everything, but it's truly an asset to the shop. Soetimes I see mitres for cheap, other times I'm amazed and their 'value' in the antique stores and flea mkts.

 

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Doc, you've got the full compliment of rods underneath! Excellent, as I hope to find those parts someday… Thanks for the numbering insight as well, i sold an All-Steel that I hope will appear here in a pic someday. It was nice, just had too many…

 

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An awesome restore, Don. Anyone using one of these?

Wonder if the blade stays true or wants to skew of line in thicker stuff?

For storage, is open shelves the way? Draws? Or ? Don, where's yours live between uses?

 

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They're hard to capture in a single frame with detail… Bring it on, love to see and hear the story how you got it!

 

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That Craftsman is done up nice! Is that original paint, or did you do some rehab to it? And it's amazing you get good results from that Handyman. I think a video tutorial is in order…

 

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Now I'm thinking of reshaping the Craftsman saw handle pictured above. Anything would be an improvement, right? And there's a backsaw in the shop that must have come from a small mitre setup, it had a plastic handle. Not greenish, like what was on my Daisy, but rather black. It's actually comfortable to use.

 

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Sorry, the craftsman handle I have… Yours is definitely an improvement, mine is 'as shipped.' I've got a ziploc ready to go, so if I reshape and sand off the finish I can even get some color into it. Mine's not ply, but solid (I think, anyway).

 

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Went to Arnold, Mo. after work for a like-new Workmate, ended up with that and another mitrebox. Saw is a Disston (26×5), etch reads "Made Expressly For GOODELL-PRATT COMPANY Toolsmiths GREENFIELD-MASS"

No marks on the box, but pistons are very Langdon-like…

 

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Owner explained his mother had the saw wrapped carefully in newspaper from the day it came home from the hardware store from a sharpening, decades ago. Price of that sharpening and pick-up date in grease pencil, on the blade:

 

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Oh, Yeah! Scored another mitre box!

 

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Fiddy cent, and this bad boy was ALL MINE!

 

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Oh, that is LOL, Mr. Lysdexic… Had no idea that knife was so easy to twist… Oh, my…

 

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It's my only piece of art noo-voe, too. What's the diff between that and gothic or victorian re: light fixutures?

 

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Dan - nice! Does your box have a hold lever that actually keeps it in place between the numerous presets? I had an All-Steel that was supposed to do that, but wasn't adjusted (I guess) to make it so. The Goodell-Pratt one I have does it real well…

 

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Exactly that. On the MF I had, didn't work too well. It does on my 80s Craftsman:

And does on the G-P as well:

Funny thing is, the Stanley SW 346 doesn't have the capability at all…

 

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Kewl!