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Hi Mignal I believe what ypiu are seeing is a "Atkin" saw, i.e. a Atkin & Son of Sheffield, which unfortunately is another maker. The Atkins I thought I bought could have been made in the US. The US trail has already been fruitlessly explored. People there seem to believe that this saw is put...

Agreed. But if the handle can be identified it could be traced to a maker and compared to a saw of that maker, which would tell us if the plate is a replacement. I know I'm asking a lot, but it bugs me that I don't know who made this saw and there are so many handles around that despite browsing...

TobyC, Cheshirechappie, Many thanks to both of you. I agree with the handle being a later design, but although Atkins did make an eight inch dovetail saw with three nuts (as opposed to for example Disston who use only two), where the top nut had no other place to go on a small handle than...

Hello I recently bought a tenon saw from the UK, mistakenly believing that the saw was a E.C. Atkins saw. It turns out the only Atkins components are the saw nuts. The handle has three holes whereas the saw plate has four round holes plus an additional rectangular hole. The saw does look...

Thanks for the post, andsad. Having received some images from a owner, they do strike me as very Stanley-esque, with a frog pattern identical to newer Stanley's. The biggest difference seems to be the screw hole in the cap iron, which doesn't bear the kidney shape. I was just interested in...

I have stumbled upon a few hand planes from Sedgley, a small British company, which according to the only source I've found, was a small company run by a Samuel Brookes. Anyway, the few hand planes I've seen appear to be well made, sturdy and with some own adaptations of the Bailey design. So...