All
these manufacturers built a full line of woodworking machines, but
most became especially known for a particular group, e.g., Boice-Crane
produced medium size and capacity machines that were ideal for home
shops, school shops and small business woodworkers; Whitney was famous
for its thickness planers and spindle shapers, as well as for a large
collection of cooperage machines; and Crescent won renown for its
bandsaws and table saws, and for its Universal Wood-Worker, a combination
machine.
As in his first
volume, the author provides a history of each manufacturer, as well
as a description of the evolution of its product lines over the years.
Accompanying the histories are many illustrations taken from the catalogs
of the period. This is a mine of information about old woodworking
machines and the companies that made them.
