On 2018-03-16 3:52 PM, Claudio DeLorenzi wrote:
> Thicker blades are totally different and much more difficult (for me
> anyways). Thin blades (less the 40 or 50 thou) are easiest to do,
> provided you have good steel. I like the really super thin scrapers I
> got from Lee Valley in their kit or set of card scrapers. The
> thinnest one in the set is about 9 thou, and it's perfect for doing
> what Scott described with shapes because you can easily curl it over
> to do rounded shapes without having to cut the blade. The most common
> sizes you find are about 25 to 30 thousandths of an inch in thickness.
For sure. Some time in the 70s I bought several of the Sandvik card
scrapers. I liked them so much, I tried to get more, but they were no
longer available. Then I bought some other thicker ones ( Record or
Marples maybe? ), but have never liked them as much. Ditto for the
super-thin LV scrapers. They're flexible to a fault when it comes to
flat surfaces. They all take a good edge, but I still prefer the Sandviks.
Don
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