What is it?

FinsnFur · May 18, 2013, 08:30:48 PM

Anyone know what this is?

Hawks Feather · May 18, 2013, 10:18:40 PM

I have no idea, but I think it is part of something for a Craftsman product.

Jerry

FinsnFur · May 19, 2013, 07:33:00 AM

I think it's a complete craftsman product in itself. I'll wait and see if anyone else chimes in with a guess and then I'll show the lid of the box which kind of has a picture of what it's used for.
I tried to search online to confirm what I think it is, find out more about it, and I find nothing.

This was in a box of stuff that I got when my ex wifes grandfather passed away, while we cleaned out his garage. THAT was over 20 years ago, I just happen to stumble upon it again yesterday while cleaning my shop. I stowed the thing away and forgot about it.

Hawks Feather · May 19, 2013, 08:45:18 AM

Jim,

It might have been better to have used this tool and stow away the ex.

Jerry

FinsnFur · May 19, 2013, 07:53:20 PM

no no, she had to go Jerry

I cant believe no one else is taking a shot, or knows what this might be.

coyotehunter_1 · May 19, 2013, 09:04:44 PM

In it's day that was one of Sears and Roebucks best selling tools... a Chasity belt lock installer.

Seriously...

heck if I know, but the suspense is over whelming.

FinsnFur · May 19, 2013, 09:57:07 PM

Once I show the box cover, it'll all make sense.
I still cant find anything online about it. I mean the box shows what it's for, but I dont understand why anyone would need it, unless my prognosis is way off.

vvarmitr · May 21, 2013, 09:59:27 AM

Is it a grinding wheel dressing jig?

Dave · May 21, 2013, 03:14:40 PM

Well when I searched "Craftsman 29p-23," the first result I got was a Sears 5-shank cultivator, so I'll just go with that.

FinsnFur · May 21, 2013, 05:43:54 PM

5 shank cultivator LOL

It appears to me to be a jig for setting the pitch on your saw blade teeth. But I still have to ask myself why, when you can by blades with different pitches. And then again maybe I'm way off and it really is a cultivator.
It does amaze me though that as far as Google is concerned, this item does not exist.

coyotehunter_1 · May 21, 2013, 06:48:17 PM

Found several on Ebayâ€¦
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html;jsessionid=8BA871DF15C2662A2FB2EC4E380AE247?clk_rvr_id=482209596246&_nkw=Craftsman+circular+saw+set&_nkwusc=Craftsman+circukar+saw+set&_rdc=1

FinsnFur · May 21, 2013, 07:30:16 PM

I've got the groove and dado cutter set on that page too Chet. Those were also part of the deal. I like those things, built many of shelves for this house with those.

What did you use for a search term, cause I tried Ebay too and couldnt find anything on the kerf tool...if thats what it is.

Hawks Feather · May 21, 2013, 09:18:40 PM

Craftsman circular saw set

This is showing as the search for me.

Jerry

nailbender · May 21, 2013, 09:43:45 PM

Back in the old days they sharpened blades instead of just chucking them and installing new.

FinsnFur · May 21, 2013, 09:49:54 PM

We got a guy at work that comes in and picks up blades and takes them off and sharpens them for us. And being one of the nations largest modular home manufactures thats a lot of blades

So this must be something like the sharpener would use, no?

Your right Jerry, but I still dont get it. Google "Craftsman circular saw set" and you get what you would typically expect...Craftsman circular saws.

Who named this stupid tool anywho? Cause it dont look like, I say it dont look like a circular saw to me?

slagmaker · May 22, 2013, 12:40:54 AM

It is used for setting.the kerf on the blade after sharpining. My dad has one that be uses whenever he os sharping saws. The farther down you wear the teeth the more kerf ya have to add to keep from pincbing the blade. Bring it with you to the LBL and i will show you how to use it.

FinsnFur · May 22, 2013, 05:27:31 AM

Well the picture pretty much gives away how to use it

Both components fit into the rails of the table and away you go tapping the teeth down.

I just couldnt imagine wearing a blade down so much that the kerf needs to be put back

But yah I guess constant sharpening would definitely eat it up wouldnt it.

Hawks Feather · May 22, 2013, 08:43:08 AM

Jim,

You just need to start thinking "old school" as in before carbide.

Jerry

slagmaker · May 22, 2013, 06:50:41 PM

Like Jerry said OLD SCHOOL. Any saw will loose kerf as it is used. The newer metals just loose it slower

FinsnFur · May 22, 2013, 07:57:10 PM

Yeah that reminds me of the butcher shop up here my cousins run. They used to give me and my brother their old knives each year cause they were wore down from sharpening.
We used them for skinning critters and I'm telling some of them blades were no thicker then a pencil.