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268561 Paul Olson <paul.olson70@g...> 2019‑05‑24 Re: W. A. Bashaw chisel - any info?
Thanks Kirk. I guess I need to go deeper than one page of search results- I
saw none of what you found. That's one thing I love about this mailing list
group- someone always knows!

On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 2:27 PM Kirk Eppler  wrote:

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> On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 12:08 PM Paul Olson 
> wrote:
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>> I recently picked up this chisel ..... maker "W. A. Bashaw" before and
>> I'm not able to find anything but a few old eBay
>> .....
>> Does anyone have any info on this maker?
>>
>> https://www.dropbox.com/sh/8d212mbegdhuxfs/AAA0BYKsxnShVSCW8Hxb3wfRa?dl=0
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> Looks like William A Bashaw was active in Chisel making in 1908, per the
> New England Business Directory and Gazetteer (Issue 23) in Wilkinsonville,
> Sutton County, Massachusetts (now 01590 zip code), One town over from
> Millbury, MA of Buck Bros fame.  There is now a short stretch of road known
> as Bashaw road in Sutton, the county where Wilkinsonville is located.
>
> Looks like a WA Bashaw was manager of the Sutton Water Works in 1915.
> Supposedly he helped form it per the History of...  Says where he bought a
> house on what is now Bashaw road, formerly a blacksmith shop.  Later on it
> talks about " THE SUTTON TOOL CO.
>
> William A. Bashaw erected a shop for the manufacture of edge tools on land
> which he had bought from his father, Eustace Bashaw, and carried on this busi-
> ness for some time. Later, he changed to the manufacture of shuttle irons, and
> built up a very prosperous business under the name of The Sutton Tool Co. His
> shop was destroyed by fire, in 1925, but he rebuilt on a larger scale, and at
the
> time of his death, June 6, 1931, he had installed machinery for the
manufacture
> of the complete shuttle.
>
> After Mr. Bashaw's death...."
>
> Also says "THE SUTTON WATER CO.
>
> William A. Bashaw, in search of water to furnish steam for his engine, lo-
> cated an underground supply, north of and adjacent to his shop. He did this by
> means of the divining rod, in the use of which he was expert. Water was found
> in such abundance that a water-supply system was inaugurated by Mr. Bashaw
> and John C. Dudley, in 1914, under the name of Sutton Water Co."
>
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> https://archive.org/stream/historyoftownofs2187sutt/historyoftownofs2
187sutt_djvu.txt">https://archive.org/stream/historyoftownofs2187sutt/historyoft
ownofs2187sutt_djvu.txt
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> In 1921 (filed), he was (1926) granted a patent for a shuttle spring (if
> you want to see how he signed his name)
>
> https://patents.google.com/patent/US1466418
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> Probably more out there, but work is calling, so I gotta go.
> --
> Kirk Eppler in Half Moon Bay, CA, might get some shop time this weekend.
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>

-- 
Paul

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