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I wouldn't change the screws now (if anyone asks, just say it was a special order for left handers :) ) [Unless, you are going to make a traditional old style handle, then change the screw orientation]

Thickness planer first, to get the wide sides parallel. then Jointer with a good fence to joint the edges square. Or use hand planes and winding sticks for the first face, and check subsequent adjacent face using a square as noted

Saws were traditionally made so that you see the flat of the screw head when you hold the saw in your right hand with the blade pointing left. (i.e. left side of saw has screw head showing, right side of saw has the nut with its slot for screwdriver showing) This is more obvious on all saws with...

G&T Gray 1849-1929. Simon Barley dates your mark to c1860, but the handle looks newer, maybe a replacement (which might explain why the screws were in backwards)

Guessing. Maybe used as a guide in cutting tiles/glass to fit in a pre-determined area. e.g. pre-set the angle, slide the tile in behind the sliding vertical post and mark for cutting

Have a look through these Marples catalogues (1928 p37 looks promising) https://archive.org/details/@mark_stansbury?query=marples

Likely made for R Fairclough & Co of 72 Byron St Liverpool (1856-1883). Listed as "edge tool and plane maker" in the 1860 Liverpool directory. (wooden planes seem to be the most common "R Fairclough" tools found in a quick web search)

Stanley 200 honing guide. With the wheel riding on the bench, and the stone in a raised bed

A man and a woman who had never met before, but who were both married to other people, found themselves assigned to the same sleeping room on a transcontinental train. Though initially embarrassed and uneasy over sharing a room, they were both very tired and fell asleep quickly, he in the...

The plane blade with an eye (and likely the horned wooden plane) will be French, made by Goldenberg. Französische Werkzeughersteller und -händler: Goldenberg, Dorlisheim

Similar style, but with only two spurs, were called "button bits" and were used to cut buttons in shell/bone/ivory/horn/ebony etc. Your 4 spur version could cut an annulus/washer in similar materials, but I don't know what for (If the inner spurs were shorter you could cut a button with an...

This idea is a bust. Polished it, put it on the wall, talked to it, but I can't get any conversation out of it. (I could try flowers, or chocolates, but its probably only good for screwing)

found a picture of another one, slightly different handle design, same thin bladed driver. I think the suggestion that this is for adjusting some screw setting (carburetor, or ?), not for driving wood screws, is more likely correct

Found this unusual right angle drive screwdriver. I've not seen one like it before. Big, heavy, requires two haned operation. You hold the metal shaft in one hand, and turn the wooden handle to drive the gears that turn the screwdriver blade. I'm assuming its a screwdriver, made for accessing...

Will I Live to see 80? (Here's something to think about.) I recently picked a new primary care doctor. After two visits and exhaustive Lab tests, she said I was doing fairly well for my age. (I am past Seventy Five). A little concerned about that comment, I couldn't resist asking her...

Some medallion references at backsaw-dot-net Spear and Jackson Medallions Looks like red collars replaced green ones (or same/overlapping period, both stating 200yrs experience), with black ones before that stating 180 yrs experience, replacing the first brass ones stating 160 yrs...

While I don't approve of personal attacks, I have to sympathize with Myfordman, as I find incessant "what's that mean" posts profoundly irritating......also non-joke comments in a joke forum..........oops I used to be indecisive, but now, I'm not sure

Looks great. How are you producing the steam ? (or are you running it on compressed air?)

Simon Barley's definitive book on British saws lists Slack Sellars & Co at Capital Works 1957-1981. JCasssidy's saw has the "capital" stamp and logo, indicating it probably dates 1950s or later (note that early Slack Sellars saws from the 1800s into the 1940s, had a different logo featuring a...

Yes, you'll need new blades, as those old ones probably only have 50 to 100 years of casual use left in them. AND you'll need to flatten the soles to within 500 microns of flat (also the sides MUST be absolutely square to the sole, etc, etc). I mean, how can you possibly do good work with them...