Re-sawing Tool - The neanders friend

[David Paulsen]

Hi all. This is my first thread, and english isn't my first language, so please excuse any hick-up.

I've been wanting to show you this for a while now, as I think you might enjoy to see this tool I have made. I got the inspiration from Tom Fidgen who calls his a "kerfing Plane".
http://www.theunpluggedwoodshop.com/...esistance.html

It's a saw plate mounted in a, sort of, plane body which has a fixed fence to kerf a track around a board, allowing him to resaw to a certain thickness. In his case for bent laminations.

I thought that was pretty handy as I do a lot of re-sawing in my shop (can't stand to waste precious wood) and always found it a bit hard to make the saw track straight. But of course I made it with a moveable fence.

So it took me a couple of days to plan and build this little "saw gauge" as I like to call it

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Want to see it in action?

I had a board from an old cabinet where some old Danish carpenter had glued a thin piece of oak onto some (cheap) pine to give substance without wasting too much precious wood.
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I'd wanted to free the oak from its ancient bond. So I set the "saw gauge" and tightened the wedges.
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Then I easily saw the kerf around the board, making sure the fence was tight against the face. (I'm sure you have no trouble in seeing how it works)
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Then my 4 tpi rip saw goes to town, without me having to check all the time if I'm on the line or not.
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Board is almost free:
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Hand plane to the rescue
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That's how it works. Its made from canadian elm by the way. Finished with oil and wax.
If I didn't have one now, I would surely build it again. It saves a lot of trouble.

Hope you enjoyed

Regards
David

[Brent Ring]

Very Interesting and Informative. How long did it take you to make it?

[Jim Koepke]

Interesting idea, thanks for sharing.

Hi all. This is my first thread, and english isn't my first language, so please excuse any hick-up.

David,

For a second language, your English is better than a lot of native speakers. Must be the education system that actually educated you.

jtk

[Kees Heiden]

Neat idea and nice execution. Is it hard work or very easy to saw the groove? I was thinking along a similar line for a similar job. I would use the thinest cutter in a plowplane, about 3mm I guess. Of course your special tool makes an even thinner groove.

A similar tool is to be seen in the catalogue from Wertheim, an Austrian woodworking tool company. The catalogue is from 1869. Here is a link. You need to scroll through until you find it on a page with a lot of saws.
http://pudl.princeton.edu/viewer.php...ge/16/mode/2up

[Jonathan McCullough]

Really cool. How many tpi on the saw part? Do you think a shorter saw length would work as well, or perhaps if it were breasted, so that it presented only a few teeth at a time and therefore less drag?

[Zach Dillinger]

I have thought about making something similar for cutting tenon shoulders. I would include a depth stop on mine, something for which you have no need. Great execution!

[William Adams]

Very cool!

I've long thought a tool like that would be perfect for sawing the lids off boxes.

[Mike Allen1010]

Great idea David -- I'm definitely building one of these.

Thanks for sharing!

All the best

Mike

[Tony Shea]

I agree, really cool tool. It is something I really could have used for a lot of years without a bandsaw. I got pretty good at resawing by hand but still used the flip the board technique to stay on line on both edges. But I could see this tool let the saw just follow the deep kerfs and create a much quicker resaw.

I think the tool is brilliant and incredibly well executed.

[Tony Sade]

For a second language, your English is better than a lot of native speakers.

I'll echo Jim on this comment, with one exception. Around here, a "hick-up" is what we call it when 2 or more good-old boys get into a fight.

On the real subject of the thread, I think your creation looks very useful, especially for resawing.

How did you fix the blade to the tool--slots/holes and screws? Any problem with the blade moving?

Thanks

[Chuck Nickerson]

I have thought about making something similar for cutting tenon shoulders.

Zach - Stephen Sheperd (Full Chisel blog) has done something along this line.
If I recall, picture a stair saw designed to run on its side.

[Jeff Wittrock]

Thanks for posting this. It looks like something I could really use as I often cut thin strips for laminations.
Not only a very good idea, but very well executed besides.

[Winton Applegate]

David,
Your first post here is a winner !
I have studied the heck out of this marvelous craft woodworking for more than a decade and have never come across a tool like the one you are demonstrating.
Way to go.
By the way this is my first reply here though I have been looking in from time to time? This is without a doubt the best hand tool forum I have found.
Keep the posts coming.

[Stanley Covington]

David:

Very nice! Do you think a slightly curved blade ("breasted") would be an improvement or not?

Thanks,

Stan

[Charlie Stanford]

Hi all. This is my first thread, and english isn't my first language, so please excuse any hick-up.

I've been wanting to show you this for a while now, as I think you might enjoy to see this tool I have made. I got the inspiration from Tom Fidgen who calls his a "kerfing Plane".
http://www.theunpluggedwoodshop.com/...esistance.html

It's a saw plate mounted in a, sort of, plane body which has a fixed fence to kerf a track around a board, allowing him to resaw to a certain thickness. In his case for bent laminations.

I thought that was pretty handy as I do a lot of re-sawing in my shop (can't stand to waste precious wood) and always found it a bit hard to make the saw track straight. But of course I made it with a moveable fence.

So it took me a couple of days to plan and build this little "saw gauge" as I like to call it

IMG_1402.jpg
IMG_1403.jpg


Want to see it in action?

I had a board from an old cabinet where some old Danish carpenter had glued a thin piece of oak onto some (cheap) pine to give substance without wasting too much precious wood.
IMG_1405.jpg
I'd wanted to free the oak from its ancient bond. So I set the "saw gauge" and tightened the wedges.
IMG_1406.jpg

Then I easily saw the kerf around the board, making sure the fence was tight against the face. (I'm sure you have no trouble in seeing how it works)
IMG_1407.jpg
Then my 4 tpi rip saw goes to town, without me having to check all the time if I'm on the line or not.
IMG_1409.jpg

Board is almost free:
IMG_1410.jpg

Hand plane to the rescue
IMG_1411.jpg

That's how it works. Its made from canadian elm by the way. Finished with oil and wax.
If I didn't have one now, I would surely build it again. It saves a lot of trouble.

Hope you enjoyed

Regards
David

Pretty cool, but I just use a tenon saw to make starter kerfs before getting after it with a rip saw.