Does anybody have a good picture of one of these little creatures, 
perhaps with dimensions?

I just cut some strips of steel from an old 2 man crosscut for blade 
stock, but I don't want to reinvent the wheel. (I needed to make a very 
tiny chisel)

Bugbear put up a picture, but I couldn't see any of the details in it.

On Jan 15, 2008, at 1:03 PM, Peter Robinson wrote:

> Thanks for the extra details of this one Bill.
> I made mine with a threaded insert screwed into the body. I couldn't 
> find any thumbscrews anywhere so went with a plain bolt which is not 
> satisfactory. Also mine is more prone to chatter than my regular 
> scratch stock because of the longer unsupported blade area so I think 
> these need a thicker blade than the usual ones.
> regards, Peter
>
> Bill Taggart wrote:
>
>> small block of rosewood with a saw kerf in it, to hold the small 
>> scrap of
>> saw blade (which is what he uses - old trashed hand saws), with a hole
>> drilled and tapped to take the brass thumbscrew you see.

Jim Thompson, the old millrat in Riverside, CA.

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