Title: Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 4, Issue 46 (25 October 1890)

Editor: Robert Coupland Harding

In: Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 4

Publication details: Robert Coupland Harding, 1890, Wellington

Part of: Typo

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 New Zealand Licence

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Printers' Saw.—

Messrs Schelter & Giesecke, of Leipzig, have devised and brought out a handsaw for cutting rules and wooden furniture, which ought to come into general use. The diagram which the firm have sent us is so clear as to need very little explanation. It bears out the claim of the inventors, that it will enable reglet of all kinds to be cut with a degree of accuracy and speed hitherto unattainable except with the aid of costly machinery. The gauge being adjusted, the reglet is immovably fixed by the lever operated by the left hand, while the saw, as may be seen in the engraving, is so adjusted as to work with absolute accuracy, both horizontally and vertically. It is applicable to rule and furniture, not only of wood, but of type-metal and brass.