The Professor claims he found this vintage museum item in a small curio shop on one of his travels to exotic locales. The story is that this is a very rare, early model Louisiana chainsaw manufactured in Acme's New Orleans factory.
He says it is a late 1930s or early 1940s model called The Cajun Special and for some reason this model never caught on. Perhaps, he says, it was due to the very small amount of fuel it held or the fact that the required fuel was a special "Elixir" only available from the Leveau family. The Professor reminds us that the Leveau company founder, Marie, was known as the Voodoo Queen of New Orleans which may have contributed to slowed sales as the fuel product was considered dangerous on both the physical and metaphysical levels. The saw was commonly used as an unpowered hand tool due to wariness about the fuel.
The Professor said he scoured the New Orleans French Quarter in a effort to locate fuel (and sampled several that were quite refreshing) but could not locate anything that would work in the saw. And so, sadly, he has been unable to use the restored saw due to lack of fuel and also because he thinks the chain may need sharpening.
(The Professor does love his little stories. We know he made this in his workshop and the “metal” frame is really wood painted to look like rusted metal and the rest is just old parts he had laying around the workshop. When The Professor is not Carving Signs or making Mechanical Marvels, he spends time making Nonsensical and Silly Things. That's why he's so much fun to be around.)
