How To Use A Kerfmaker

Here you see both cuts made.

How to use a kerfmaker. You now have a perfect thickness for the groove marked on your stock if you are using a single blade you just have to clean up the cut by taking multiple passes between those first two cuts. Examples are for kerfmaker 120. This tool is first calibrated to the particular cutting tools exact kerf. Kerfmaker adds a kerf width to all edges of a part before trying to place it in a board.

I also made another kerfmaker the kerfmafe handydandy and a blog on how to use a kerfmaker hope it can be usefull to those of you who are full of questions on this. Be sure the lower piece is slid tightly against the masonite. You can certainly make a much nicer looking. New films domidrewno every wednesday friday and.

Turn the adjusting screw so it just touches the near edge of a sawtooth. Both the km 1 and km 2 kerfmakers make sizing grooves and dado cuts painlessly easy. You might be interested in my height length gauge when you have to set the table saw depth for the cut. This little tool is easy to make and works extremely well.

The board therefore must be at least two kerf widths wider and longer than the part. While the km 1 is limited to a maximum stock width of 2 inches the km 2 kerfmaker will allow you to make cross laps and other joints with stock up to 100mm 4 inches in width. Now set the cut up and lie the kerfmaker behind the stock and use the shortest part see photo then lock your fence stop. Now rise the kerfmaker so its full length and move the stock up to the kerfmakers front.

For example a 2x20 part needs at least a 2 14 x 14 board to fit. Make your next cut. Just select and copy the text for a project then go to kerfmaker on your iphone and use import project in the main left menu. Hope it can be to some inspiration.

This is a one time step. With a wider capacity you can now use the km 2 with a dado head and it can be calibrated to any kerf size up to. And you are ready to make your first cut. They can be imported into earlier versions of kerfmaker if the lines that start with mat are removed.

Use a square to align the kerfmaker with the straight piece of wood. Here are woodworking projects you can download right to kerfmaker. Flip the kerfmaker around so the back screw is now against the stop block adjust your material so its next to the kerfmaker and make a second cut. You gauge the thickness of your stock with the kerfmaker lock and you now can use the kerfmaker as a flip stop to create a groove the exact width of your stock.

One kerfmaker will work for every tool you own.