Collecting vintage J. Sagar & Co Woodworking Machinery

J. Sagar & Co Halifax

'My little on-line museum of all things J. Sagar'

email me: sion@sagar-woodworking-machinery.co.uk

I have been collecting wood working machinery by J. Sagar & Co since about 2004, although it wasn't my intention to collect machines by this maker from the beginning. I was just looking to equip my workshop with machines of every type I thought I might have a use for one day and I wasn't initially concerned with the maker at all, but as my machinery collection increased I started to acquire a few machines by particular makers, notably those by Wadkin and Sagar, and so the possibility occurred to me of collecting a complete workshop of machines of just one make. I learned that Wadkin had bought J. Sagar out during the 1950s so a little sympathy for Sagar developed and also since they had closed their doors by late 1957 any machine of their name has considerable age. I am now lucky enough to have some 25 J. Sagar machines in the collection, and I am looking for more examples all the time, i prefer to collect the older belt driven machines but i am interested in anything with J. Sagar written on it.

I am still hoping to find J. Sagar examples of:

Dovetailing machine
Mortiser
18" Surfacer or Jointer
16", 24" or 30" Planer Thicknesser
Horizontal Sander
Tilting Dimension saw.
Pattern Makers' Lathe
Tilting Spindle Moulder (Shaper)
Tilting Bandsaw


Below are some of my collection of wood working machines by J. Sagar & Co. Each thumbnail below links with a page dedicated to that machine with more photographs and whatever information that i have about them.

Many of the photographs on this page are now quite old and show the machines as I first got them, I am slowly working through them to update them to show them all in their current state.

Link to my main business website: Mobile Field Shelters and Stables by Dovey Wodcutters

J. Sagar & Co GD 48" rope feed circular saw bench
J. Sagar GD 48" Rope Feed Saw Bench



J. Sagar & Co 30" Rise & Fall Circular Saw Bench
J. Sagar & Co 30" Rise & Fall Circular Saw Bench



J. Sagar & Co HQ 18" Circular Saw
J. Sagar & Co HQ 18" Circular Saw



J. Sagar & Co 26" Rise & Fall Circular Saw Bench
J. Sagar & Co 26" Rise & Fall Circular Saw Bench


J. Sagar & Co Dimension saw
J. Sagar & Co Dimension saw



J. Sagar & Co Builders Tenoner
J. Sagar & Co Builders Tenoner



J. Sagar & Co Small Tenoner
J. Sagar & Co small Tenoner




J. Sagar & Co IZ Chain & Chisel Mortiser
J. Sagar & Co Chain and Chisel Mortiser



J. Sagar & Co NE 36" Bandsaw
J. Sagar & Co NE 36" Band saw



J. Sagar & Co NE 30" Bandsaw
J. Sagar & Co NE 30" Bandsaw



J. Sagar & Co 24" Band saw
J. Sagar & Co 24" Bandsaw



J. Sagar & Co 6" x 42" Surfacer / Planer or 'Jointer'
J. Sagar & Co 6" x 42" Surfacer or Jointer



J. Sagar & Co 14" Surfacer / Planer (Jointer)
J. Sagar & Co 14" Surfacer / Planer (jointer)



J. Sagar & Co 14" x 7' Surfacer or Jointer
J. Sagar & Co 14" x 7' Surfacer or Jointer



J. Sagar & Co AX 9" Thicknesser
J. Sagar & Co AX 9" Thicknesser



J. Sagar & Co 20" Planer Thicknesser
J. Sagar & Co 20" Planer Thicknesser



J. Sagar & Co Spindle Moulder (shaper)
J. Sagar & Co Spindle Moulder (shaper)



J. Sagar & Co AGJ Light High Speed Router
JJ. Sagar & Co AGJ Light High Speed Router



J. Sagar & Co GFA 48" #1 Lathe
J. Sagar & Co GFA 48" #1 Lathe



J. Sagar & Co Vertical Belt Sander
J. Sagar & Co Vertical belt sander



J. Sagar & Co Miter Guillotine
J. Sagar & Co Miter Guillotine





I have a few other machines by Sagar, not yet photographed:

Pin Router
24" Thicknesser
18" Rise and fall Circular Table Saw
12" Surfacer / planer / jointer
Planer Knife Grinding Machine
Cutter Block Setting & Balancing Stand


I would be delighted to hear from others out there of the Sagar machines or catalogues that you have in your workshops/collections, and i would be inerested in adding details and pictures on this site too if you would be willing, in order to try and create a bit of a knowledge base and archive of all things Sagar.


Link to my main business website: Mobile Field Shelters and Stables by Dovey Wodcutters

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