You are absolutely right concerning the angle a scraper meets the wood.
Try it yourself guys. Stand a card scraper nearly straight up. Push
It hogs, I mean hogs the wood.
But take the same scraper and lean it forward 20 degrees. Now push.
It peels off dust!
And you have anywhere inbetween, on the fly.
I use this trick all the time working a hand (card) scraper.
Stand it up to cut, lay it over to finish. ;)
On one of my homemade plane totes, I scraped it start to finish. No
sandpaper ever touched it.
Scraping this way puts you through all the scraper angles and all the
grain attack angles. Every single one. Plus the trick of sliding
sideways as you push.
If you want to really learn scraping, do a tote. haahaah
(rosewood and all of the hardest woods are the easiest to scrape)
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> getting ready to wax a shovel and attack some heavy wet white stuff
my man
yours Scott
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