Clean it up and it'll make a great miter saw. If nothing else, if you have kids it is a pretty safe way to let them saw because the saw is essentially captured.
If there are any sort of markings on the saw's medallion or any etch visible on the saw plate, put some photos of it up and we might be able to get more info to you.
It is an old Stanley miter saw. I haven't went to check out the supplied link yet, but my grandfather had one just like it. He was a beekeeper. He built all of his own beeboxes. He kept one of these broke down behind the seat of his truck. I only seen him use it a few times. If he needed to make a repair, or in one case I seen build an entire new one, he would use hand tools out in the beeyard to the boxes. That way he didn't have to displace the bees to carry the box back to the shop.
The carriers inside the box had screen in them and the bees would form wax on them to store their honey in. He made these with mitered corners. This is where he used the old stanley miter box.
All the actual boxes had dovetailed joints. He said this was for strength so that in the rare instance the bears came up and knocked the boxes over they would hold up well enough so that the bees, especially the queen, would stay with the torn down hive till he came back to check on them.
I love seeing stuff like this that brings back memories of my grandfather. We lost him back in the nineties. He was my first introduction to woodworking. All I ever seen him build were bee boxes. However, he put so much care into the joinery of those boxes that I grew up admiring them as fine pieces of furniture. We did use them as furniture too. When we had guests, a few bee boxes were always stacked in the corner. Us kids would turn one on its side with the other upright in front of us for a make do table and chair. Then there would be enough room at the table for the adults.
By the way, he is also, to this day, the only man I've ever seen cut perfect dovetail with a handsaw and a chisel. He didn't even have a pencil on him to lay it out or draw anything. He had done so many of the same size boxes that he would lay the board on the tailgate of the truck, clamp it down with a C-clamp and just start cutting.
When the man wasn't working, he was either whittling around the fireplace or making us kids toy cars out of scraps of wood and mason jar lids.
I have two of these squirreled away, with great saws too. Unfortunately, the track that the saw 'back' rides in on both of mine is so severely worn that there's nothing left. I'll get around to machining some new ones as I don't ever expect to find replacements. They are indeed a joy to use, and with a plane and chute to touch up your cut, you can not do better with a power tool.
It's a Stanley #358 Miter Box Saw. When they came out it was the best way to get accurate angle cuts…
You could change to a finer/coarse tooth back saw for the cut you wanted or needed for the job…
you are welcome
but it realy just was pure luck
the site is one of the first I found when I started out in the journey to try to learn
more about woodworking and I search the net for magazins becourse we havn´t
this kind of things in Denmark except for a DIY magazin that cuoldn´t learn me anything
and it was under a seven month sick periode I found out that I want to learn more
and learned more than I have done the 30 years as a DIY person
and I also found out during the site and others that it shuold be handtools I wuold like to learn about first
and I have ever since turn back to the site a few times a month
so you see only pure luck and the remember of your saw : -) even my brain cuold connect
that to each other and think you maybee was interrested in more about theese type of saws….LOL
this miter saw is for real old school wood workers all hands on. used to be pretty accurate. they also had a tool that cleaned up the cut after. It had two big razor blades that when you pulled a long handle they would come together and take a very then slice of wood off and leave aperfect edge and miter.
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