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Making, materials and what happens behind the cut. The evergreen reference lives in the guides; everything with a date on it lives here.

KERF is live: upload a file, get a price, parts in the post

KERF is open. Upload a drawing, see a waterjet cutting price in seconds and order online: five metals, 0.7 to 25 mm, cut in Melbourne and posted Australia-wide.

🤖 The first (and only) Australian cutting service your AI agent can order from

KERF is the first (and only) Australian cutting service your AI agent can order from: an MCP server and API that let Claude Code or Codex upload a file, get the price and hand you the checkout link.

Five mistakes we see in uploaded files, and the one-minute fix for each

The five most common problems in files uploaded for waterjet cutting, why each one blocks an instant price, and the one-minute fix for every one of them.

How to export a DXF for cutting from Fusion 360, Onshape, Illustrator and Inkscape

Clean DXF exports for waterjet cutting from Fusion 360, Onshape, Illustrator and Inkscape, and when uploading the file you already have beats exporting at all.

Why a cutting company is named after the slot the cut leaves

KERF nearly launched under a different name. The story of how an online cutting service ended up named after the material the cut takes away.