Sandvik handsaws

Re: Sandvik handsaws

Ted Shuck, Centennial, CO

>I'm pretty sure that the Sandvik name has been superceded by Bahco. I have a Sandvik and a Bahco chisel which are almost identical, including the model number. I believe the Sandvik name fell out of use in the last 10-15 years or so.

Most newer Sandvik/Bahco saws that I have seen have hardened teeth and plastic handles. I have an older Sandvik saw that is very nice though, without hardened teeth, and it stays sharp for a long time.

Ted

Re: Sandvik handsaws

MikeW

>Hi Luke,

Here's a post I did on another forum when people were confused as to who owned whom when (the little diffing I did helped me too--I like Sandvik tools):

(btw, their website is bahco.com)

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To be (more) precise, Sandvik aquired Bahco in 1991 (Bahco says it was in 1992). Bahco (tools division of Sandvik) was in turn aquired by SNAP-ON in 1999

Sandvik was started in one form or another in 1858. After SNAP-ON's purchase of Bahco, Sandvik is now primarily in three areas: Tooling , Mining and Construction, and Specialty Steels.

Wanna know more?

Is this akin to flogging a dead horse* or what?

Mike

*Note, no horses, dead or living (or stuffed for that matter) were harmed in the production of this useless tid bit of information.

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And to continue the flogging*, Sandvik transfered its tool making under the Bahco brand as it was phasing out its manufacturing of tools once the aquisition of Bahco occured.

It is my understanding that the metal used in Bahco (now owned by SNAP-ON) is still produced by Sandvik--which is the point of my original post--it was and remains good steel for tools.

Mike

*Note, see previous flogging note.

Actually, that's interesting

Jay Samuels

>I was looking for a replacement cutter for a set of Bahco hard wire cutters I had picked up, and never received an answer to the inquiry to the US distributor. Maybe I'll try again.

Re: Sandvik handsaws

Derek Cohen (in Perth, Australia)

>The lineage is not complete without mentioning that Sandvik took over A E Berg, famous for their chisels (some of my favourites), before being taken over themselves (by Bahco).

Regards from Perth

Derek

Re: Sandvik handsaws

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>I have an older Sandvik handsaw, and really appreciate the fish or dragon (at work, can't remember, but very Scandinavian anyway) imprinted in the handle where the U.S. saws put wheat sheaves.

Wandering OT, where did the wheat sheaves come into it anyway? Is there some mystical association of handsaws with the harvest?

Re: Sandvik handsaws

Tim Caley - North Little Rock

>Don't know if this if fact or not, but I read somewhere that the wheat symbol had to do with the handtool being used to earn a wage with which to buy one's daily bread.

Re: Sandvik handsaws

Patrick Gibbons, Houston

>Sandvik also bought Disston saws from Porter in the 1980's, possibly the '70's.

Re: wheat

Moses Yoder in White Pigeon, MI

>I think the wheat is wheat because it is easy to carve and probably for no other reason. It fit well on the handle, was easy to do, and made it a little bit more distinctive.

wheat carving

Michael Stadulis, in Gloucester County, NJ

>Hello,

In Tom Law's Handsaw sharpening tutorial video, he states that the wheat carving was chosen to express the "fruits of labor"

-Mike

So Sandvik's logo would represent

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>the joy of fishing instead of laboring? Those clever Scandinavians!