Hi all,
I’m not quite as articulate as alot of you guys and gals. Not to say I don’t know a lot of big words, but I do woodworkin for the “simplicity”, (ya, right) You are a smart bunch, I think I even detected a reader of Richard Dawkins among you.
Anyway, thanks to Bob Van Dykes video, I got my card scraper to give fine shavings instead of dust. I have 800 and 1200 water stones. I used a chunk of square red oak to hold the scraper against to keep it at 90, then lapped it (easy) then put it in the vise and burnished with the shank of a high speed steel turning gouge. Worked. Got the dings out of quarter sawn red oak. Now I’m looking for a card scraper holder because I’m starting to get a little arthuritis in my thumbs. I’ll be saving on juice and paper for the orbital sander.
My new Freud knives for the 50s craftsman jointer arrived, and now that sings also. It has jack screws so it was easy to set the hieght. Used the combo square and set the knife when it just kissed the bottom. Way less complicated than what I thought. Would that that were true of everything else.
Anybody heard from the Mel?
Love, tom
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Lee Valley sells a scraper holder: http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.aspx?c=2&cat=1,310&p=32669
Mel is on a working vacation this week.
Hugs and kisses,
-Steve
veggie,
You've discovered the way to avoid sharpening-- just buy new cutters that are already sharp. Don't tell the others, they will regret purchasing all those gizmos, jimcracks, and gewgaws.
XOXOXO,
Ray
Tom,
That Veritas card holder is effective if you don't like grasping the scraper itself. It provides a good grip, a means to keep a constant bend in the scraper (which you can vary with a twist of the screw) and insulation from any heat you generate when you git to scrapin' vigorous-like.
http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.aspx?c=3&cat=1,310&p=32669
I like the Veritas "big spokeshave" cabinet scaper tool for the same reasons and because it works well on big flat surfaces.
http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.aspx?c=3&cat=1,310&p=46266
The best scraper I have for flat surfaces is one Philip Marcou sent me, made from an old bandsaw blade of giant proportions, apparently. Its slightly smaller than a standard card scraper but a good 1/8" thick. It takes lovely shavings using just the right-angle corners of the honed flat edges, no burr required. It seems to keep the sharp corner-edges forever and is easy to grip without a holder as the thick metal dissipates the heat before it gets to your fingers.
If pressure is increased and the ange of attack varied a bit, it will take either the lightest dust (minimal pressure, more upright angle) or a continuous, curled shaving like that from a very fine-set plane (heavy pressure and a steeper angle of attack).
It must be the simplest tool going; but very effective and satisfying to use.
Lataxe
"It must be the simplest tool going; but very effective and satisfying to use." that is indeed the beauty of it. You can see the grain start to pop as you use a scraper.
Thanks, Lataxe. I think I'll get the larger Veritas scraper
Yers,
Just me..
So take my 'free' advice in as 'I see it'.. :>)
I use card scrapers all the time.. They even work if makin' dust!
(OK so it depends on what grain you are working on). I am not knocking a SHARP scraper AT ALL.. Just that (for most work) I have never seen 'THAT' much difference in the finish given'..
ya but...
There's also that instead of sawdust up my nose, I've got shavings I can use in the woodstove for kindling. Plus there is more exercise, less time, and less throwing away of used sandpaper. Most importantly perhaps, scraping is better for the soul than power sanding.
One should take everything I say with a grain of seasalt. I do sneak out the old Makita belt sander now and then. The only thing I really get serious about, at my age, is the young man I like for president.
Love and peace
Hell, I ALWAY use SEA SALT! But somehow my OLD brain thinks that 'IS' the same as they get out of salt mines that were made many millions of years ago! Am I getting a bargen paying extra for it???sawdust up my nose?? You must REALLY work up close to your work when using a card scraper! LOL.. I had a good laugh on that!Love and peace...
I'm sort of like that untill I get punched in my nose!I do sneak out the old Makita belt sander now and then. AND I just have a RYOBI belt sander.. Was I punched in the nose.. LOL..Have a GREAT day!
1) Sorry you get punched in the nose so much
2) My makita belt sander was made before there was any such a thing as "ryobI"
3) Not only do I have sawdust up my nose, but my hands are purple from the red oak.
3) Sea salt, peace and love are all good for ya. Look it up!
4) You have a great day too
5) Time to do a little work, enuf of this foolin around.
Peace,
Tom
but my hands are purple from the red oak. Ever try to use a scraper on PurpleHeart?
Ryobi was founded in 1948, your Makita sander was made before you knew of Ryobi.
Ya but, my old tool is better than your new one, and it probly cost less.
Tom
So your answer to being wrong is to go totally retarded? Pray tell, what belt sander do I own?
It will tell you on the side of the tool what the brand is. Copy the letters carefully onto your next post, and we'll help you read it. Ryobi wasn't around when I bought my Makita belt sander pre 1989.
Yours
Must be sad news to all those AP10 owners out there that bought their tools in the early 80's. But I guess in your self centered little world, if you haven't heard of it, it must not exist and if you don't own it, it can't be as good as yours.
According to Ryobi Founded in 1943,
according to Makita: founded in 1915 and incorporated in 1938Don't see where you are going with this??
According to Ryobi Founded in 1943,
according to Makita: founded in 1915 and incorporated in 1938Don't see where you are going with this??
Seems pretty obvious that contrary to his assertion, Ryobi was around when he bought his Makita in 1989.
R
'Ere! Wot is that whistlin' sound? Ooooh, it is the curved blade of a Very Sharp Tongue swishing towards the appendages of a fairly innocent bystander, who has made a tedious but harmless remark. "Brown bottle"! (Earl of Cardigan, I believe). Old dawgs enjoy their habits; and their rabbits.
I will away to fetch the bandages and perhaps a wooden leg for that poor unfortunate you are intent upon dismembering. Meanwhile, mind he doesn't give you a bite in the nethers when you are intent on limbering up for the next swish.
Lataxe, an innocent (but nimble) bystander, hoping you are too busy to jab at little moi.
Methinks he will not be needing the bandages nor the wooden leg as I have returned the Very Sharp Tongue to it's scabbard.
It's just not very rewarding conversing with someone who's answers remind me of Pee Wee Herman! I will let him climb back on his pink bicycle and pedal off into that land where time began in 1989 and nothing existed before and nothing worthy made since!I will have to forgo the brown bottle as I am recovering from a rather nasty bout of the flu and can barely deal with fruit juice and water.I see in another thread that you are still working on that batch of square pegs, either ladywife has been distracting you or that must be one large pile of pegs by now!I was thinking of you and your duplicator the other day, I have ordered a very small gouge and intend to cut it off and fabricate an adapter to secure it in the bit holder in mine. I will also have to make a suitable sized follower. I'll let you know how it works out.
R,
Them pegs! There are now 32 of the rascals in the table and we musn't forget the half dozen that lie ruined by over-eager chisel application under the bench. I even made some extras, for who-knows what. (I am thinking of maybe an oak library table - a frankenstein thang with design-bits of Rodell, Gimson and even Reckpigg the carver-and-part-time-swineherd, from the court of King Stephan The Rude (AD 947 - 978)). Medieval; it must be medieval.
Was Pee Wee ever regarded as funny by anyone? I did once watch a filum in which he "starred", as that celebrity-argot has it. It was a complete puzzle. Perhaps it is the American version of surrealism?
As to the lathe duplictor - it languishes in the loft; but I would like your experimentation to result in an Excellent Solution. I will swap you the cutter plan for a number of square oak pegs, 6mm, 8mm and 10mm. What a bagain! (I won't say for who).
Lataxe
Hello Lat,
No, I don't believe PeeWee could ever have been considered funny. Me thinks "PeeWee" refered more to the 'toy' he liked to play with the most, as evidenced by the "hormonally driven behavior" he was found engaged, in the darkness of a movie theatre whereby his real name should be; a describtor of his whole personna.
swish, swoosh, swish, rescabbord.
Chris, following the daring manner of knights of old.
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