What is this tool?

[drbill]

I was cleaning out my laundry room and came across this tool that must have been my dads. Does anybody know what it's for? The wheel is adjustable and marked 0-12 by two's.

 

[eschoendorff]

It's a dickfer.

 

[shocker51]

It's a kerf setter.

 

[tweety652]

some sort of banding tool???

 

[bmwpower]

It's a dickfer.

What's a dickfer ?

 

[tweety652]

uhhh-boy we need to have a longgggggggggg talk.

 

[MXtras]

What's a dickfer ?

You had to ask, didn't you?



Scott

 

[tweety652]

hell just watch cinemax later tonight.

 

[eschoendorff]

What's a dickfer ?

To pee with.













Kerf setter! I knew it looked familiar. My dad taught me how to set a kerf with one of those on a hand saw when I was about 11. i cannot believe that I missed that.

 

[drbill]

Man I was way off I though it was for stripping the sheathing off electrical wire. That's why the blade that you push out is cut on a angle and the wheel is marked for the different angles also.
Are saw kerfes adjustable?

 

[bmwpower]

You had to ask, didn't you?



Scott

Haha. Nothing wrong with a little comedy on a Saturday night!

 

[bmwpower]

What's a kerf setter?

 

[mulepackin]

It looks like a sawset (kerf setterf?) I've never seen an adjustable one though.

 

[drbill]

I'm guessing that it's from the late 40's early 50's
I wish he was still around to ask him

 

[IntrstlarOvrdrve]

What's a kerf setter?

x2...I don't know what it is either.

 

[MXtras]

For staggering/bending the teeth on them thar saws that aint gots no power cord attached?

Like da one be-lo:


Scott

 

[Junkman]

On a hand saw, the teeth are set at an angle. This angle is known as the "kerf". Every other tooth is set the same..... right, left, right, left, etc. How much each tooth is set to the outside determines the width of the cut, or the kerf. A finish saw will have small teeth with a slight kerf, and a cross cut saw will have larger teeth with a stronger kerf.

 

[wilbilt]

And when the kerfs flatten out over time, you might as well be using a dickfer cutting wood, because the saw won't do it.

Hence the need for a kerf setter.

 

[mulepackin]

Not to be too nitpicky here guys but it's called a sawset, not a kerf setter. The kerf is the wood that is removed with the saw on each stroke. The slot or groove if you will. You don't set a kerf, you set the teeth on the saw. My old shop teacher would have had a redass if you called it a kerfsetter, as would any old saw man in the woods around here. I'm still not sure the tool in question is one though.

 

[wilbilt]

Not to be too nitpicky here guys but it's called a sawset, not a kerf setter.

Thanks for that. More info here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saw_set