I use one in the picture. It's one of the Chinese HSS block plane blades. I put a fairly heavy camber on it. It certainly comes in very useful.
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| Author: | TonyFrancis [ Tue Oct 11, 2011 4:34 am ] |
| Post subject: | Beveled Scrapers |
Okay - who uses them, how do You sharpen them, and why do you prefer beveled over the square edge versions!? |
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| Author: | TonyKarol [ Tue Oct 11, 2011 6:21 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Beveled Scrapers |
One of my fave scrapers is not really a scraper . its an old jointer knife that too short to fit the holder in the jointer any more . made a wooden handle for it, and sharpen it on glass with 600 grit paper, no turned edge .. works like a hot dang |
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| Author: | ernie [ Tue Oct 11, 2011 8:19 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Beveled Scrapers |
Plus 2 for the previous comments. |
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| Author: | David Newton [ Tue Oct 11, 2011 12:09 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Beveled Scrapers |
Tried it, filed it back square. I like 4 edges. |
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| Author: | Alan Carruth [ Wed Oct 12, 2011 1:28 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Beveled Scrapers |
Wait until you try a heavy scraper: 1/8" or 3/16" thick tool steel, fully hard, with lapped faces and the edge hollow ground perpendicular to the faces (like an ice skate). I picked up the idea from Carleen Hutchins, although it took me a long time to make myself one. Once I did, I wondered why I had not done so sooner. All of my students _had_ to have their own, and we spent a lot of time cooking tool steel in an old dentil investment furnace. Finally one of my students, who is now working in his brother-in-law's machine shop, started to produce them. With any luck, Stew-Mac will have them out around the end of the year. I don't make any money off this, but I sure am glad that I won't have to roast any more D-2, and lap off the scale... |
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| Author: | Michael.N. [ Wed Oct 12, 2011 3:29 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Beveled Scrapers |
I use one in the picture. It's one of the Chinese HSS block plane blades. I put a fairly heavy camber on it. It certainly comes in very useful.
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