Bill (I) described Garrett Hack's scratch stock, not Paul (BugBear).  =8-P

But yes, the little universal holder block is its own fence.  It rides
against the edge of the work.  As shown in the previously linked picture, it
is upright.  You need to ignore all of the various profiles sticking out the
end and top of the cutter - the only one in use is the tiny little
projection on the lower left end.  The body of the holder rides along the
edge of the work, and that little projection hanging off the lower left
corner makes a very fine groove.  Garrett filled the thin groove perfectly
with a very thin, slightly tapered (in cross section) strip of white
material, which I cannot recall what it was - boxwood?

Looking at the linked picture, imagine you are holding the scratch stock in
the orientation shown in your right hand and the piece of wood in your left.
All you need to do is slide the scratch stock along the wood and Robert is
your father's brother.

- Bill T.
- Who just so happens to have a quantity of rosewood in the exact perfect
dimensions to duplicate that little bugger, and several trashed old handsaws
out of which to make my own pocket-sized Stanley #45 kit...

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Hucaby [mailto:dave@h...]
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 3:15 PM
To: 'Bill Taggart'; 'paul womack'; 'oldtools'
Subject: RE: [OldTools] Scratch stock

Paul describes Garrett Hack's universal scratch stock:

> Actually, that is his scratch stock.  I played around with it a bit.

Did his scratch stock also have a fence? I can't really tell from the photo.
I'm just curious how he would have used it to route straight grooves for the
inlay unless it could ride against a guide somehow.

Thanks for all the great CW posts!
Dave Hucaby

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