A circular veneering-saw, as used at the City Saw Mills.("Saw," Penny Encyclopedia, Knight & Co., London. 1843)
These boats were each cut out of a single tree, one mahogany, the other cedar ; measuring about thirty-five feet in length ; nearly six feet in breadth ; and above five feet in depth. Few people are acquainted with the immense size and value of some logs of mahogany brought into this country. The following may serve as an example. "The largest and finest log of mahogany ever imported into this country has been recently sold by auction at the docks in Liverpool. It was purchased by James Hodgson, Esq. for three hundred and twenty-five pounds, and if it open well, it is supposed to be worth one thousand pounds. If sawed into vineers it is computed that the cost of labour in the process will be seven hundred and fifty pounds. The weight at the King's beam is six tons thirteen hundred weight." - Robert's Voyages to the East Coast on Central America.
At a veneering-mill, that is, a mill which cuts a mahogany log into thin plates, much more delicately and truly, and in infinitely less time, than they could be cut by hand, two hundred and forty square feet of mahogany are cut by one circular saw in an hour. A veneer, or thin plate, is cut off a piece of mahogany, six feet six inches long, by twelve inches wide, in twenty-five seconds. (Knight, Charles. Results of Machinery. Carey & Hart, Philadelphia. 1831)
A circular veneering-saw, as used at the City Saw Mills.("Saw," Penny Encyclopedia, Knight & Co., London. 1843)