25" Chitlangi

[Svashtar]

A fine tooth hacksaw blade with the kerf ground off makes a great little cleaning tool for all kinds of grooves on khukuris, just have to be very careful of where boff er both ends are.

Sorry to bring this back up, but I was actually dealing with this today, and Steve has mentioned it a couple of times as well. AND sorry to be so obtuse, but "kerf ground off?" I know what a kerf is, the width of the blade right? So what does that mean exactly? Do you mean just grind down the teeth a bit?

Thanks for any info. I was looking for a good tool to clean out handle grooves today, and ended up using a very short (1"), rigid and Sharp! fixed blade made by Klein for cutting the insulation off large wires. Its problem is that it is inflexible. I have an old 10" hacksaw blade, but because of the set of the teeth it only cuts in one direction.

Norm

 

[ferguson]

You know how a saw blade has the teeth bent from side to side (the set of the teeth) so it will cut a groove (kerf) wider than the blade to keep from binding? Well just grind the sides of the hacksaw blade to that the teeth aren't wider than the blade. That way it will cut a narrow groove. I've found that pulling the hacksaw blade around the grooves in a khuk handle is easier than pushing it. The Japanese agree. Most of their saws cut on the pull stroke.

Steve

 

[Svashtar]

You know how a saw blade has the teeth bent from side to side (the set of the teeth) so it will cut a groove (kerf) wider than the blade to keep from binding? Well just grind the sides of the hacksaw blade to that the teeth aren't wider than the blade. That way it will cut a narrow groove. I've found that pulling the hacksaw blade around the grooves in a khuk handle is easier than pushing it. The Japanese agree. Most of their saws cut on the pull stroke.

Steve

OK! Got it, thanks Steve. Easily done. I agree on the pull saws, and have several Shark saws that have replaced my old rip and crosscut saws.

Norm