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Woodworking Forum => Woodworking Forum => Topic started by: Northwoods on May 29, 2015, 01:49:42 PM

Title: Riverside Tool Co. carpenter's square
Post by: Northwoods on May 29, 2015, 01:49:42 PM

Came home with a cute little $1 carpenter's square yesterday.  Small 8 X 12" steel baby.  I was attracted to the logo, of course.  Cleaned it up a bit with light oil and fine steel wool.
 
Found this:  23mm. circle containing: The Riverside Tool Co   New York.  Inside is a 20mm. circle containing: Celebrated Blue Seal Trade Mark.  Inside that is a nice anvil.  Inside the anvil is R. T. Co. (the o fits inside the C.)

Haven't found much on the company--but enough to know that it is not the same as Lakeside Tool, the Montgomery Ward line.

Go to it, guys! 

Title: Re: Riverside Tool Co. carpenter's square
Post by: stillfishin on May 31, 2015, 11:06:38 PM

I have an axe with the logo hard to read, but it is in a diamond says RIV****** TOOL CO CAST STEEL then there is the little picture of an anvil in the middle, but no writing on that.  I think you have solved my mystery for me. I've wondered for a while what brand this actually was.

Title: Re: Riverside Tool Co. carpenter's square
Post by: Bill Houghton on June 02, 2015, 10:50:03 AM

I've had a Riverside tool of some kind; can't recall what.

Title: Re: Riverside Tool Co. carpenter's square
Post by: Northwoods on June 02, 2015, 10:33:02 PM

I understand that some are simply marked R. T.
Do you have any memory of your tool's logo?

Title: Re: Riverside Tool Co. carpenter's square
Post by: Northwoods on August 27, 2015, 03:11:37 PM

I came home with one of those funny little screwdrivers with the completely flat blade yesterday.
Riverside.
BTW, what is the name for that design?

Title: Re: Riverside Tool Co. carpenter's square
Post by: lauver on October 05, 2015, 12:13:16 AM

Northwoods,

I asked scottg the same question a long time ago and I think he told me that style of driver is/was known as a "Turn Screw". 

Of course I could be wrong... as my memory isn't what it used to be.

Title: Re: Riverside Tool Co. carpenter's square
Post by: Branson on October 05, 2015, 11:30:37 AM

Quote from: lauver on October 05, 2015, 12:13:16 AM

Northwoods,

I asked scottg the same question a long time ago and I think he told me that style of driver is/was known as a "Turn Screw". 

Of course I could be wrong... as my memory isn't what it used to be.

Frequently so, that or London pattern turnscrew.  But I suspect that it is mostly that we drive screws while the English turn them.

Title: Re: Riverside Tool Co. carpenter's square
Post by: Chillylulu on October 06, 2015, 12:53:29 AM

Quote from: Branson on October 05, 2015, 11:30:37 AM

Quote from: lauver on October 05, 2015, 12:13:16 AM

Northwoods,

I asked scottg the same question a long time ago and I think he told me that style of driver is/was known as a "Turn Screw". 

Of course I could be wrong... as my memory isn't what it used to be.

Frequently so, that or London pattern turnscrew.  But I suspect that it is mostly that we drive screws while the English turn them.

All the drive screws I used were hammered in. Code changed a couple of cycles back to disallow their use. Now we have to use lag bolts, 3/8" no less.

Chilly