Thursday, December 19, 2024

Kerfing Saw Modifications

 

I've made some modifications to the kerfing saw I made a while ago.

I discarded the wedges, which never really worked very well, and added a pair of M6 bolts running down through threaded inserts in the body of the tool, to secure the fence arms. I inset brass plates on the top of those arms, cut down from an old door push-plate, so that the bolts don't chew up the fence arms when they're tightened up.


At the moment I've just cut screwdriver slots in the bolt heads, but one day I may get around to making some more attractive thumbscrews.

All this should make it a much more effective tool. Note: Red beech is a very bad timber for making this sort of thing out of. It works very easily, and it's a nice colour, but it suffers from terrible checking.

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