Have You Seen the Saw Clock Yet?

Rhonda Wiegand has asked me to pass along this update on the Marias Museum's Saw Clock project. This is a one-of-a-kind fundraiser...your chance to take your place in Toole County History and support the museum!

We have stopped selling 30 inch saws.  We may have a few spaces left in a few weeks.  We are allowing those folks who have spoken for a $50 space a  certain amount of time to pay the Museum and drop off the saws.  The Museum Holiday Open House is tentatively planned for Dec. 5^th  so we are on a deadline.  It is time to get creative.

The next  spaces available for sale are for 22 inch saws.  They are $40 a space and that is payable to the Marias Museum.  The Marias Museum has old 22 inch saws for sale and they are $7.

 I have some of their saws as well.  I will clean off the rust, paint the saw blades, stain the handles, have lettering put on them by Chrystal May, clear coat them and deliver them for another $50.  That is payable to me.  I will pay Chrystal for the lettering out of that.  My number is 339-2561 or 450-6326.

If you need someone to pick up your check and any decorated saw, I’ll do that for you and deliver it all on Tuesday afternoons during the winter hours at the Museum. 

Larry Munson had the main idea for the clock.  He approached Harry Benjamin to build it and Harry did it. 

Larry is excited to get the ball rolling again.  You can contact him  at 432-2182 and reserve a space.  We are working together with Harry who is finding new ways to make the clock even more exciting.  Raymond Tomsheck has also decorated saws on the clock.  His number is 339-2253.  He may still be willing to decorate a few.  Of course, Dean Hellinger is at the Museum every Tuesday.  He is a wealth of information.  I’ve seen that everyone who works on the board considers the Museum their labor of love.

If you know of anyone else who will decorate saws, don’t keep it a secret.  We all want to know.  There are only about 100 saws to go.  Let’s do this Shelby!!!

There is going to be a book that tells a little bit about each saw and by whom it was donated.

Remember, don’t count on the first 3 inches of the saw being seen.   It will be fastened behind the disk.   

Also,  hold the saw in your right hand, lift the tip with your left.  The side you are looking at is the side you decorate.

 I recommend you use your own saw if it is in fairly good condition.  The old saws are not fun to clean or paint.  The only thing that I’ve found that touches a really rusty saw is sand blasting.