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In my humble opinion, Oliver Wood Working Machinery, of
Grand Rapids MI, is simply the
highest grade equipment ever made for
woodworking. We invite you look over a catalog study I've put together
of their out of print catalogs of this wonderful line of equipment.
Vintage Oliver machinery catalog study
 Click for more details
Acrobat PDF file - please note this
is copyrighted by Chuck Hess. 2004 - 2008 ©
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For original Oliver
Machinery replacement parts
contact Rich Fink at Eagle Machinery & Repair @
www.eaglemachinery-repair.com |
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One of my favorite sites for Old
Wood Working Machines is
www.owwm.com And the OWWM discussion forum
is
www.owwm.org |
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Only the
few machines at the top of the list are available for purchase, the
rest of them are my production machinery, and not for sale. Please call Chuck @
828-777-2429 for details. |
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Yates American
Y36 "Snowflake" 36" Bandsaw, 1940. Fully restored
and drop dead gorgeous! I enjoy seeing folks standing in
front of this saw making cow eyes at it. Available with pneumatic operated DC motor drive feeder.
This has been called "The Nicest Saw in America"! |
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Oliver #116-D
Bandsaw. This is a very nice 1953 model with a 690 RPM, 5
HP "pancake" motor; what a great motor design on these!
That motor and the tapered shafts make a very smooth running saw.
This one also has the uber cool target on the door. A
really clean and ready to go saw. |
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Oliver Model #190 Universal Scroll Sander, 1956. Fully
restored and ready to go; comes with 1" sanding form and new
belt. Cool little machines for
detail sanding. |
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The
following machines, in the photos below, are my production equipment and they are
not for sale, sorry.
My machines
might be available at the estate sale when I'm gone, but my boys
like them too, so no guarantees on that either. |
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Yates American
Y20 "Snowflake" 20" Bandsaw, 1938. What can
you say about a snowflake? Life is short, you might as
well enjoy the machines you work with. I like to have at
least 3 band saws in my shop. We mostly use this for
scroll work with a 1/4" blade. |
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Oliver #20-D
Patternmaker's Lathe w/30" Swing, 10' Bed and Power Feeding
Carriage.
We're the second owner of this 1936 vintage beauty! This is
a relatively new addition to the fold, and was restored in
January 2008. We were so lucky to get a full complement of
the rare Oliver lathe accessories that were still with this lathe in
its original pattern shop home. God was good to us that
day! Livin' large in Oliverville! |
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Oliver #20-D
Patternmaker's Lathe w/30" Swing, 12' Bed and Power Feeding
Carriage. We just picked up this 1946 vintage lathe, and
this is where the vision comes in, as I was unloading it I was
not having trouble picturing it restored as our other 20-D in
the photo above. Like I said this is where I have to
envision the machine restored, but this is often the condition of the machine that we
have start
with. Don't worry, it'll be beautiful, you'll love it! |
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Oliver Model #159
Patternmaker's
Carriage Speed Lathe, 60s vintage. We have 2 of these that belong
to my kid's. This 12" swing lathe has a 6' bed.
These are great for spindle work, 3600 RPM top speed. We have
had lots of fun and adventures
all over the country collecting the accessories for the little
lathes. |
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Oliver Model #159
Patternmaker's Carriage Speed Lathe. Here is their other
one with a 5' bed length. |
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Oliver Model #88-D 18” Table Saw, 1968.
Its nice to have really solid table saw, and this is it.
It's a real workhorse, we leave it set up just for 90 degree ripping.
Love that Oliver micrometer fence! |
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Oliver Model #260-D Dual Arbor Table Saw, 1942. This is
another WWII vet, it came from the island of Oahu, and was
probably at Pearl Harbor. This is another that I found on
the island of Maui. These are
such cool saws, they can do about anything but especially nice
for compound angle chair parts using the slider and the quadrant
gauge. We usually leave a combo blade and a dado stack set
up on this, I don't like to change blades. |
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Oliver Model #232 Table Saw, 1968.
This is a sweet little (14") saw! We primarily use
this one for cutting angle rips. |
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Oliver Model #191
Table Saw, 1937. Very heavy contractor's type table saw.
They must have had some burly contractor's to move this from job
to job, back in the day! It's a sort of scarce machine and
I'm glad to have it in our collec....er, inventory. |
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Oliver Model #299-D 24” Planer with Insert Tooth
Cutter Head, 1942. This WWII vet has a 7 1/2 HP motor.
It was originally sold to the submarine base in Guam, and I
found it in Maui. The Oliver ITCH (inserted tooth cutter
head) head is an awesome design, those boys in Grand Rapids had
it together on this one! I love the spiral head for difficult
grain or tropical hardwoods. Fantastic planer design on a
very small footprint for a 24" planer! |
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Oliver Model #12-B 20” 1956 Patternmaker's
Jointer with grinder. We are lucky to be the second owner of this 10 HP gem. I get a lot of e-mail about this machine for good reason, thanks for
all the nice comments. This baby touches every piece of
wood that goes through our shop. About 9' bed length and 5'
roller extension make this a dream to use. The pattern
maker's feature on these # 12s is a truly impressive design,
what a sweet machine! |
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Oliver Model #144
Jointer, 1926. This was a gift to my boys from a friend of
mine, thanks Tom! Restored by them with a little help from me.
We have the blade guard too, it was getting repaired when this
photo was taken. Really great little jointer, and my boys
are very proud of it, even though they are not allowed to use it
yet! This photo was taken on 3-29-08 and the boys have
really gotten a lot bigger fast. Time really flies by when
you're having fun! |
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Oliver
Model #125-D Single End Tenoner, Tilting Bed, 1951. Many
say this is one of Oliver's finest designed machines. It
sure is a joy to use. We use this for large tenons, mostly
entry doors and such. |
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Oliver Model
#92-D Power Feed Hollow Chisel Mortiser, 1956. I had
searched for one of these for a long time. This is one of
only 2 of my machines that I purchased already restored by
someone else. The power
feed on one of these will sure spoil the operator. |
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Rye (English) H2 Double Slot
Mortiser. Serial 337, 1962. This and the matching
Rye T2 round end tenoner, are 2 of my very favorite machines!
We use these a lot for furniture sized mortise and tenon joints.
Ryes are impressive, high quality machines and very accurate. |
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Here is a shot of "shaper land" in my shop.
I like shapers and I like to have dedicated machines for
repetitive operations. We put all the "little" shapers on
mobile bases to be able to adapt to a wide variety of uses. We have one more Oliver shaper not
in the photo, that
is up on the mezzanine right now. I know; it's a sickness,
but I'm OK with that.. |
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Oliver Model #288-T Double Spindle Shaper, 1958.
This one is our shops "molder", and we primarily make
short runs of custom molding with it. The spindles are on
24" centers and I love that nice big work surface. |
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Oliver Model #288-T Double Spindle Shaper,
1957. It is our biggest, and heaviest,
shaper. This one has a Holz 6 roll power feeder
mounted on it and we mostly use it for cabinet door edge
profiling. The spindles are on 30" centers and I really
love that nice big boy work surface. |
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Oliver Model #287-T
Spindle Shaper, 1970. 5 hp, 1 1/4" spindle. This one
is setup with a Forest City 4 roll power feeder and we use it to
run our "stick" cut for cabinet doors. This one stays set
up for that all the time. |
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Oliver Model #287-T
Spindle Shaper, 1965. 7 1/2 HP, 1 1/4" spindle. This
one has a 2 speed flat belt arrangement. Right now we have
a Steff 6 roll power feeder mounted on it but mostly use this
with our panel crafter for radius shaping. |
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Oliver Model #287-T Spindle Shaper, 40s vintage.
This one has a 2 speed V belt arrangement. We have this one
setup for our cabinet door "cope" cuts. We leave it
setup for this all time. This
one found me from the Big Island of Hawaii. |
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Dodds 15 spindle
automatic dovetailer, 1962. These are nice little
machines. |
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Oliver 1930 #
34-DD, Double 30" Disk Sander. We had fun restoring this one
in 2009, and she came out really nice. We even scored a
correct vintage chain fall to complete what is now another one
of my favorite machines. The photo doesn't really do it
justice, take my word for it. |
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Oliver Model #381-D Tilting Oscillating Spindle
Sander, 2 Speed Motor, 1957. This is another that we are lucky
to be the second owner of this machine. I got this sander
as a package deal with my jointer, the owner would not split
them up. My #12 Jointer and this big spindle sander were
in his "model shop". That must have been some "model
shop", and I wish I could have seen it. This is THE one to
have! |
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Oliver Model # 182-DB Disk and Belt Sander Combo, 1968. |
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Ekstrom Carlson Model
#123 Scroll Sander. Another fairly scare machine that I
don't come across often. Great little detail sanders. |
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Oliver Model #190 Universal Scroll Sander, 1967. These
are great little sanders! I use mine mostly for tuning up
templates or patterns, and small furniture details. |
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Baldor 10" Pedestal
Grinder. We have this one setup for grinding turning tools. |
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Dewalt GE Radial Arm
Saw. This one has a 7 1/2 HP motor and is setup to swing a
20" blade. I like the 7 1/2, it doesn't slow down! A
lot of shops don't like to have these around anymore but I love
mine, and find it extremely useful in a custom shop. I had
a jump saw in this spot, but found it too limited in capacities
for what I am doing. The key to these is that they are so
versatile; I once had a job that had 71 degree cuts in 3 x 8s
and we actually switched to a rip blade and the saw made that
cut beautifully. Also great for timber framing details. |
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These machines
below are a few of our old
machines that have been sold or traded. |
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SOLD - 1936 Oliver #217 30" Band Saw. This saw is already
sold, completed and delivered to the new owner in June of '08.
The photos above show the finished saw, the restoration turned
out stunning! Click on these links to see the restoration
process.
Part #1 =
http://www.owwm.org/viewtopic.php?t=38166
Part #2 = http://www.owwm.org/viewtopic.php?t=38385
Part #3 =
http://www.owwm.org/viewtopic.php?t=38842
Part #4 =
http://www.owwm.org/viewtopic.php?t=39447
Part #5 =
http://www.owwm.org/viewtopic.php?t=39872 |
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SOLD -
Yates American Y20, "Snowflake", 20" Band Saw.
Tilting Table and Foot Brake. Serial # B-13717, about
1939. |
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SOLD-
1975
Oliver #416-D 36" Band Saw. |
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SOLD - Oliver
Model # 192, 18" Band Saw, 1924 vintage. |
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SOLD - Oliver "Type B", 38” Bandsaw, 1907 vintage.
This was my first large band saw and first very challenging
restoration, I should get college credit for this one. I will always have a soft spot for type Bs. |
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Sold
- Northfield 36"
Deluxe Bandsaw. We did a *lot* of resawing with this baby
in Maui and had her set up for extremely smooth cuts right off
the blade. |
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SOLD -
1942
Oliver #66 Heavy Gap Pattern Maker's Lathe. 8 1/2' centers
& 48" swing with the gap open, pattern maker's carriage and compound,
rare auxiliary cross
slide, 2 speed 5 HP motor for 16 speeds and comes with
several rare Oliver accessories. Ready for a total
restoration for a discerning collector. They don't make
'em like this anymore, this will be a
stunning machine! The curve of that casting will make an
impressive lathe. |
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SOLD - Oliver Model #51-B
Patternmaker's Speed Lathe, 50s vintage. |
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SOLD -
Oliver Model #88-DX Table Saw, 1942 Vintage. |
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SOLD - Ekstrom
Carlson Straight Line Rip Saw, 1958. |
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SOLD - Ekstrom
Carlson #434 Router. Really nice condition 5hp EC router.
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SOLD -
Oliver #299-D 24" Planer, Straight Knife Cutterhead with Grinder,
Serial # 84806, 1954. |
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SOLD - Maka DB 5 Horizontal
Mortiser, comes with 118 Knives, Manual, and heavy duty custom
made mobile base. The mortiser is currently wired 240
volts, 3 Phase. These are very cool machines that cut extremely
clean mortises. Makas are high quality German built machines.
The mortiser has original paint and looks really good. It has a
very nice fence, compared to some I've seen, complete with stop
rods for repetitive cutting. It has 2 vertical pneumatic hold
downs and 1 horizontal pneumatic holdover. |
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Sold - Oliver Van 1987 vintage. I drove
this beauty for 17 years! |
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Phone:
828-777-2429
