The Porter-Cable A4 Worm Drive
I found myself at a buddy’s place over the weekend, pulled there by some vague notion of watching a man wrestle with history. He’s deep into restoring a house from the early 1900s, and for the last several weeks he’s been rebuilding solid mahogany doors by hand. That sounded like the kind of madness worth witnessing up close. The doors were something, sure. But the real story was the saw sitting on his workbench like a small, beautiful artifact from a better civilization. Tagged as a Guildtool 4-A, though the cognoscenti know it as the Porter Cable A4 trim saw. …
