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265471 scott grandstaff <scottg@s...> 2018‑03‑16 scraping
So there I was. Standing at the vise scraping wood.
You know everybody wants to start with aircraft carrier table tops. 
First thing they think of. Lets do the bowling alley.
And I once scraped my whole living and family room floors. Looked real 
nice. But it wasn't exactly delightful to do.

Well scrapers can do more. Scrapers can shape wood really amusingly.
Carve, then use a spokeshave, then scrapers.
I was just doing a hammer handle. Quickie job. And the final shaping 
will be done with a scraper. I doubt I will sand it at all.

You know, people get the wrong idea about scrapers all the time. They 
think the scraper is supposed to be the magic. They think some mystical 
regimen of razor sharpening is going to make them work.

But its really you.
Scraping is a skill. Its posture and pressure and grain reading on the 
fly. Its a serious skill.
When you can scrape, you can use a bottlecap on a cast iron skillet if 
you want.
Its scraping, you make it happen.

And one of the joys is actually cutting wood with a scraper. Not just 
finishing, but cutting the wood in meaningful bites enough to shape a 3 
dimensional object.
Chair scrapes were made for this. But you can use a plain scraper in 
your hand if you want.Its what I often do.

   I have shared these pix before.
But its nasty stringy yew wood. No way you are using a drawknife or even 
a spokeshave. The grain is all twisty and interlocked.

  There simply IS no good angle of attack.

    But a scraper? Yeah you can carve this nasty wood with a scraper in 
your hands.

These are scraper shavings.

  http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/hometools/handlec
arving.jpg">http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/hometools/handle
carving.jpg

http://users.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/images/hometools/handlecarving2.jpg

  see the scraper in each pic?  a chunk of old handsaw.


And for ordinary wood like hard as a brickbat hickory?

Drawknife, spokeshave, scraper. Its not so much hard work.
I just did some in my bathrobe and slippers. lol

     yours Scott

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265472 Ed Minch <ruby1638@a...> 2018‑03‑16 Re: scraping
> On Mar 16, 2018, at 2:32 PM, scott grandstaff  wrote:
> 
> I just did some in my bathrobe and slippers

Now there is an image in your head that you can’t unsee

Ed Minch
265495 Nathan Goodwin <hiscarpentry@g...> 2018‑03‑19 Re: scraping
snip: > I just did some in my bathrobe and slippers.
End snip.

That's funny, I'm glad to hear that I'm not the only one.

Nathan Goodwin
Weymouth MA

On Friday, March 16, 2018, Ed Minch  wrote:

>
> > On Mar 16, 2018, at 2:32 PM, scott grandstaff 
> wrote:
> >
> > I just did some in my bathrobe and slippers
>
> Now there is an image in your head that you can’t unsee
>
> Ed Minch
>
>
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