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   flairwoodworks | Mar 23, 2009 06:25am | #1

   Velo,

   I'd try a scratch stock.

   Chris @ www.flairwoodwork.spaces.live.com
   (soon to be www.flairwoodworks.com)

    - Success is not the key to happiness.  Happiness is the key to success.  If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. - Albert Schweitzer

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   GDH2 | Mar 23, 2009 11:50pm | #9

   What is "a scratch stock"?Doug
   The Wood Loon
   Acton, MA

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   | Mar 24, 2009 01:14am | #10

   "What is "a scratch stock"?"

   Here's mine.

   Bob, Tupper Lake, NY

   
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   KiddervilleAcres | Mar 24, 2009 05:01am | #12

   Bob,

   Just curious, what do you use for blades?

   Regards,Bob @ Kidderville Acres

   A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!

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   | Mar 25, 2009 03:10am | #19

   Hello Bob,

   I used an old scraper blade.  I heated it with a torch and cooled it very slowly. This softened it so that i could cut, file and hone it. After I shaped the steel, I heated it once again and quenched it to harden it. I then heated it once again until it was a light straw color to kind of temper it. I wasn't very scientific about the whole process, but it seemed to work.

   Bob, Tupper Lake, NY

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   Ray | Mar 24, 2009 05:43am | #13

   Thanks for those pictures, I have a bit of 100 year old molding to recreate.  Now I know how :)

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   integrity_woodworks | Mar 24, 2009 09:45pm | #14

   Hello Ray , basiclly its also called a beading tool ,Lee valley sells them in sets. I used to do a lot of restoation of 1800s furniture and would and, still do make my profiles by cuting up old hand saws I would fined at garage sales and what not.I maake custom shaped card scrapers the same way. just thought that might help?

   Dan thewoodbug

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   Ray | Mar 24, 2009 09:55pm | #16

   Hi Dan,

   I have the LN beading tool, but it isn't big enough to reproduce the baseboards I need.  It worked fine on the door casings.  I've been debating modifying one of those ancient, scary 3-wing Craftsman molding cutters but when I saw your tool, I realized that "by hand" was the way I should go on this project.

   Thanks again for the pics.

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   integrity_woodworks | Mar 24, 2009 10:18pm | #17

   Ray thanx ,But that is  a pic of salamfam's tool ,and in my experiance by hand is the only way to reproduse some thing old.

   Dan thewoodbug

   Edited 3/24/2009 3:19 pm ET by woodguydan

   Edited 3/24/2009 3:20 pm ET by woodguydan

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   dustymctevish | Mar 24, 2009 10:43pm | #18

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   You gat that right, rather do it by hand.

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   integrity_woodworks | Mar 24, 2009 09:49pm | #15

   very nice, I like the body shape,looks to be well balanced.

   Dan thewoodbug

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   flairwoodworks | Mar 24, 2009 05:01am | #11

   Doug,In it's most basic form, a scratch stock has a cutter which scrapes the wood. It's profile is generally sharpened square to the face. The cutter is clamped in a beam, usually with screws. A fence runs along the beam to keep the cutter a fixed distance from the edge of the work. So it is more or less like a pin-style marking gauge.Chris @ http://www.flairwoodwork.spaces.live.com(soon to be http://www.flairwoodworks.com)

    - Success is not the key to happiness.  Happiness is the key to success.  If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. - Albert Schweitzer

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   YesMaam27577 | Mar 23, 2009 03:36pm | #2

   Its difficult to tell from the picture, but it looks like those lines have been "scratched" into endgrain. If that is truly the case, I might try scratching it, but I think it might be difficult to avoid blowouts.

   And so I might be just as likely (if its endgrain) to try a light cut with a dozuki or similar saw.

   Politics is the antithesis of problem solving.
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   dustymctevish | Mar 23, 2009 06:29pm | #4

   I see double beads instead of just groves either made by a molding machine or molding plane, should be easy to replicate with the use of a shop made scratch stock.  Do you have access to a #45 or #55 combo plane?  If so they may have the beading blade that matches.

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   YesMaam27577 | Mar 23, 2009 08:38pm | #5

   see Dusty's reply, post #5 in this thread -- he directed it to me by mistake.......Politics is the antithesis of problem solving.

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   dustymctevish | Mar 23, 2009 10:49pm | #6

   Sorry,

   I’m not as good at multi-tasking as I once was.

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   YesMaam27577 | Mar 23, 2009 10:51pm | #7

   Aint no thang......Fergivun fer shurPolitics is the antithesis of problem solving.

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   velomark | Mar 23, 2009 11:36pm | #8

   Thanks everyone. I appreciate the help!Cheers,

   Velo

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   Eef | Mar 23, 2009 05:58pm | #3

   velo,

   those are decorative "grooves".  were i needing to create that detail, i would do so using my tablesaw and its fence. six passes on the saw, move the fence accordingly. afterwards the edges of each groove would need to be eased by sanding.

   eef