Who made this hacksaw?

[PFSchaffner]

Don't know if this basic shallow-throat hacksaw frame is very new or quite old, domestic or foreign. Simple, elegant, and feels good in the hand -- with three or four saws on the bench, I'll usually reach for this one first. No markings whatever. All steel with decent heft and good finish and knurling. Can anyone place it for me? Probably turn out to be something embarrassingly common, modern, and made in Korea, but who knows.

(I've linked rather than attached:

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pfs/fun/Kiwanis/pix/IMG_1614.JPG

)

[wvtools]

It may be a machine shop school project.  Most of that type of tool that I have found are typically nicely made.

[Papaw]

I agree- a very nice shop project.

[PFSchaffner]

Thanks. I did wonder if it was craftsman-made -- since it seemed to be composed entirely of stock materials, subjected to standard sorts of machining (turning, pinning, knurling, slitting, threading, polishing) -- but it seemed like a lot of work for a hacksaw. A shop project sounds right.

[amecks]

It is actually a Proto tool.  After finding one last year I posted it here and Lauver identified it as Proto model #344 circa 1954.  Check this post and scroll down a ways:
http://www.papawswrench.com/vboard/index.php?topic=14073.0
Regards
Al

[PFSchaffner]

Great! That clean California Proto look.
Thanks also for the reference to the earlier post: I find that I own one of the clamp-like objects that no one knew quite how to identify, pictured last in that post. It was described to me confidently by the son of a shoemaker as a cobbler's anvil. I've left it clamped to my bench for the last six months waiting for an obvious use for it to appear.

[amecks]

A cobbler's tool, eh?  So in six months you still haven't found a use for it?  That's about as long as I've had mine.  I think it will come in handy one of these days. 
Regards
Al

[mikeswrenches]

Thanks also for the reference to the earlier post: I find that I own one of the clamp-like objects that no one knew quite how to identify, pictured last in that post. It was described to me confidently by the son of a shoemaker as a cobbler's anvil. I've left it clamped to my bench for the last six months waiting for an obvious use for it .

I have another of these clamp things...having finally sold the last one.  At a recent tool meet we were discussing what it was used for and the following explanation was given.

It is an often missing clamp that was used to hold a particular dough mixer to a table.  This piece slipped inside a slot to clamp the mixer down.

My problem with most explainations is they don't explain why the clamp is curved on both the top and bottom.  If you think of trying to clamp down a double bottom bucket that has a slot for a clamp, then this thing starts to make sense.

Unfortunately, my searches of Google patents didn't turn up any dough mixers that used a clamp like this.

Mike

[1930]

It is actually a Proto tool.  After finding one last year I posted it here and Lauver identified it as Proto model #344 circa 1954.  Check this post and scroll down a ways:
http://www.papawswrench.com/vboard/index.php?topic=14073.0
Regards
Al

Id like to have the balancer if avail?

[J.A.F.E.]

I have one like it marked Plomb so it could be Plomb or Proto.

[Bus]

Haere a similar shop made hack saw from "Instructional Units in Machine shop" published 1953

[Bus]

Here are the plans for the Hack Saw:

[krusty the clown]

I do not believe it's a shopmade hacksaw. I also do not believe proto made it. I believe proto had their name stamped in it....MAC has the same saw in their catalog as well as many others. there was two models "high back" and "low back". cornwell has a low back model as late as 1981 with a DE mfr code listed. the rest of their hacksaw line was from drier bros and used a DR code.

[J.A.F.E.]

I have two like that, one marked Plomb the other unmarked but I have no idea on maker.