Thursday, November 10, 2016

Simonds Catalogs and Other Publications

This is a partial list of Simonds catalogs, pamphlets, and other publications. These are ones I have researched on WorthPoint, eBay, Amazon Books, and elsewhere. It appears that Simonds may have issued catalogs yearly in the early 1900s, but some years are more common than others. Simonds also published catalogs of their files, and Heller files after 1955. See my other site American Made Files.

Items in bold I have bought, scanned, and uploaded to Archive.org.

1889 Price List of the Simonds Saws and Knives
1893 Price List of the Simonds Saws and Knives
1901 Simonds Saws & Knives, 64 pages
1903 Simonds Saws & Knives, 126 pages
1904 Simonds Saws & Knives, 80 pages (only 1 page of hand saws)
1904 Hardware Edition (includes hand saws)
1905 Simonds Saws & Knives, 271 pages
1907 Seventy-five Years (company history)
1909 Simonds Price List, 325 pages
1909 Simonds Saws & Knives, pages unknown
1910 Simonds Saws & Knives, 165 pages
1912 Simonds Saws & Knives, 174 pages
1914 Simonds Saws & Knives, Pacific Coast Edition, 172 pages
1915 Simonds Saws Knives Files Steel, 160 pages
1916 Simonds Saws Knives Files Steel, 180 pages
1918 Simonds Saws Knives Files Steel No. 18, Pacific Coast Edition, 162 pages
1919 Simonds Saws & Knives No. 19, 195 pages (reprinted in 1994)
1923 Simonds Saws Knives Files Steel No. 23, 191 pages
1923 Simonds Saws Knives Files Steel, Pacific Coast Edition
1927 Simonds Saws Knives Files Steel No. 27, 168 pages
1935 Simonds Saws Knives Files Steel No. 35
1937 Simonds Saws Knives Files Steel, Pacific Coast Edition, 200 pages
1938 Simonds Saws Knives Files Steel Catalog No. 38, 151 pages
1940 Simonds Saws Knives Files Steel No. 40, Pacific Coast Edition, 188 pages
1942 Simonds Saws Knives Files Hack Saws Shear Blades Steel Specialties, 155 pages
1946 Simonds Saws Knives Files Hack Saws Shear Blades Steel Specialties No. 46, 168 pages
1952 Simonds Si-Clone Saws (small circular saws)
1954 Simonds Metal Cutting Tools
1955 Simonds Saws Knives Files Shears Cutters
1963 Simonds Metal Cutting Tools Catalog M-100
1963 Simonds Wood Cutting Tools Catalog W-100, reprinted through 1969

Some other Simonds informational and promotional publications:
1948 Simonds wall calendar

1909-? Simonds Guide for Millmen, 1920 on Google Books, March-April 1922
1911, 1914, 1924 Simonds Guide for Carpenters
1915 The Professor and the Saw: A Little Story for Those Who Like to Use Tools
1916 How To File a Hand Saw
1918, 1925, 1945 The Circular Saw: A Guide Book (on Archive.org)
1921 The Band Saw: A Guide Book, 63 pages (on Archive.org)
1922? Instructions for the Use of Simonds Precision Cross-cut Saw Tools, No. 342
1923 The Cross-Cut Saw
1923 Saws Knives and Files for Metal and Woodworking Shops
1925 Hacksaw-ology
1925 The Circular Saw: A Guide Book
1927, 1936 Methods of Cutting Metal
1928, 1946, 1950, other years File Facts
1940 Care and Use of Circular Saws in Woodworking Plants
1941 & 1946 How to File a Cross-cut Saw
1942 Metal Cutting Methods
1945? How We Fit Into the Fighting Picture
1946 Facts for Millmen
1947 Manual of Wood Cutting Tools
1950 The Wide Band Saw: A Guide Book for Filers, Sawyers and Millwrights
1957 125 Years of Growth 1832-1957
1961 Care and Use of Circular Saws in Woodworking Plants
1962 You and your job with Simonds Saw and Steel Co.
Facts for Mechanics about Hacksaw Blades, Metal Bandsaw Blades and Files
The Circular Saw, a Guide Book for Filers, Sawyers and Woodworkers

Other Simonds promotional items include calendars, pocket notebooks, thermometers, tie clasps, pocket diaries, playing cards, postcards, bookmarks, log calculating scales, and more. 

2 comments:

  1. Is there a picture of the file used to sharpen the saw any where ?

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