A real what is it!

[oldgoaly]

about 14-16" long about a 2" slot
only thing I can think of is you could maybe pull a fence to tighten it up some?

[oldgoaly]

So I took the wire brush to this today, turned it around a few times to get the ends. Could this be a saw set? or straightener? I flipped the pic upside down to give how it may have been used. Not for common hand saws but  2-man saws or the lumber mills type blades.

[gibsontool]

How wide is the slot? I can see this being a home made saw set for a large diameter head saw before the days of carbide inserts. These old saws,if I remember correctly, had about a 3/8" to 1/2" kerf, maybe even more depending on how the teeth were set. No idea what the curved down ends were for. The arms may not be long enough to get the amount of pressure needed to bend each tooth with a reasonable amount of accuracy.

[oldgoaly]

I didn't measure it but a saw blade with out carbide tip should fit fine. The slope on the ends I think helps with down pressure, not much but that might be what it's for?
I'll see if we still have a 2 man saw blade or the ice saw?
To use this the saw blade would need to be vertical.

added a couple of pics, a 10" radial arm saw blade.  probably not for such a small blade but it does looks like that might be it. No markings found. No other old saw blades found. Yes this work bench is a complete mess, but the walls are not done. Cold winter's day job cause the furnace is just off to the left. and it 83* in the St.Louis area!

[Bill Houghton]

You wouldn't want a set on a sawblade with a carbide tip anyway; the carbide insert is wider than the sawplate, which is how it gets its "set."  And the carbide is brittle enough that attempting to set it would likely snap the insert right off.

[oldgoaly]

Bill,
My guess this tool is from sometime in 1800's up til about WW2, carbide is fairly modern invention.

[mvwcnews]

How about a "fence wrench" to twist paired wires -- to make "picket" type fence.  Try it on a pair of #8 or #9 wire & see if it fits.

[oldgoaly]

don't think I have wire that size? thinner for hanging thing and thicker for wire edging fenders or other car parts.

[lptools]

Hello, I looked at The Saw Set Collector's web site, could this be a Wrest type saw set? Manual bending of the tooth, as opposed to a hammer or plier type saw set? Regards, Lou