Thanks folks.

I guess it's tough to tell between the two: band and sash. My guess is it would be damn near impossible to tell between sash and muley... they're basically the same saw with a few distinct differences in their operation.

Will, thanks for the links. Hatch Mill is great. As is that little video at the bottom.

Tim:
I would be interested in that stuff you have on the ships, etc. All the straight saw marks I've ever seen have been 90-degrees.


A guy at the old mill I visited was saying that the spacing between the marks is how you can tell between sash and band sawn. Band marks are closer together... but it sounds like there were probably many variations of both types of saws: feed rate and tpi and strokes/revolutions per minute, etc.

So who really could say?? A fast sash could likely produce stuff that probably looked the same as a slow band...