Identifier
NA 1927 (local)

Repository
Maine Folklife Center

Date
May 20 1986 (Date created)

Summary

Cunningham discusses his work as a saw filer in the Machias Lumber Company mill; the difference between braising and welding; frequency of saw teeth breaking; what caused a saw tooth to break; frequency of changing blades in various saws; demonstration of sharpening a saw; shaper and swage; saws used in the Whitneyville mill; and his sharpening business in 1986. 

Creator and/or Contributor
Charles Cunningham (interviewee), Edward D Ives (interviewer)

Language
English (Languages)

Other Subject Headings
Logging (Ethnographic Thesaurus (ET))
Log driving--Maine (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Occupational folklore (Ethnographic Thesaurus (ET))
Sawmills (Ethnographic Thesaurus (ET))
World War II, 1939-1945 (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Great Depression, 1929 (Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH))
Machinery (Ethnographic Thesaurus (ET))

Temporal Coverage
circa 1940 - 1986

Geographic Coverage
Machias, Maine (Geonames)
Whitneyville, Maine (Geonames)
Sullivan Island (Local)
Princeton, Maine (Geonames)
Winslow, Maine (Geonames)
Vietnam (Geonames)
Kennebec River (Geonames)
Penobscot River (Geonames)

Materials Designation
sound tape reels (analog)
photographic prints
transcripts

Part Of
Machias River Project

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