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   Found this in some of my father's old stuff and have no idea what it was used for. Has a file in it and an adjusting screw. Maybe something to do with sharpening a hand saw?

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ac hunter Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Orange Level Joined: 05 Jan 2011 Location: OHIO Points: 1051	Post Options Post Reply Quote ac hunter Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: what is it? Posted: 12 Jan 2021 at 4:01pm
	Found this in some of my father's old stuff and have no idea what it was used for. Has a file in it and an adjusting screw. Maybe something to do with sharpening a hand saw?

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shameless dude Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Orange Level Joined: 10 Apr 2017 Location: east NE Points: 13607	Post Options Post Reply Quote shameless dude Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 12 Jan 2021 at 7:39pm
	i've seen those...but never paid any attention to them

Grayray Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Orange Level Access Joined: 12 Sep 2009 Location: Ambridge PA Points: 3858	Post Options Post Reply Quote Grayray Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 12 Jan 2021 at 8:39pm
	AC, you are correct. When you mention about sharpening hand saws, I thought you were thinking of a saw jointer, but this doesn't look like the ones I've seen, close, but not the same. I did a quick search for saw jointers, and found several like your picture, and they were called raker gauges. Vintage Crosscut Saw Sharpening Tool - Raker Gauge - Excellent READ TO THE END \| eBay This would not be used for a carpenters hand saw, but for a tree cutting or lumber jacks saw. For cutting live wood, a saw has a few regular crosscut teeth, then something called rakers which remove the saw dust and chips. These rakers need to be a few thousandths shorter than the regular teeth so they do not touch the bottom of the saw kerf. This gauge would be used after sharpening the teeth to file the rakers down the couple of thousandths The odd double teeth in this picture are the rakers: https://images.ffx.co.uk/tools/ROU66842.JPG?w=1280&h=960&scale=both

DonBC Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Orange Level Access Joined: 12 Sep 2009 Location: Courtenay, BC, Points: 944	Post Options Post Reply Quote DonBC Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 13 Jan 2021 at 1:22am
	You have to do the same with a chainsaw if you have filled the teeth down a lot.
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ac hunter Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Orange Level Joined: 05 Jan 2011 Location: OHIO Points: 1051	Post Options Post Reply Quote ac hunter Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 13 Jan 2021 at 6:47am
	Grayray, Shameless, Thanks for the identification. I have a couple of cross cut saws that came from dad and probably belonged to my grandfather. Grayray, I see you are from Ambridge, Pa. My parents met at the ship building company that was located there during WW II. Mom worked in the Navy office and Dad was a welding inspector in the Navy. They built LST's there. Probably nothing left of all that facility now. Thanks, Russell.