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    For the Car spring route: no need to anneal first most of the spring shops recurve springs with just brute force. Hammer and a cavity anvil. the spring steel will hold an edge pretty well just take when sharpening. keep the tool cool and don't over heat. Robo brings up a good point, if you are going for deep scraping you have just created an industrial sized chatter tool. A better set up might be a god heavy piece of plain steel with a tool steel insert clamped in the end.

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    Please excuse the first 4 tools, this is a generic picture of some of my home made tools.

    The one of interest is the far right. It's a Roberts Sorby handle and Blade I came across without any scrapers. Sorby no longer support this tool so I had to improvise. A bit of High Carbon Ground Flat Stock (key stock) and I was able to make a couple to suit my needs and can make any others I need in the future.

    Look again, the blade is nothing more than 3/8" thick steel rectangular section bar, drilled & tapped at one end and ground to a tang for a handle the other.

    For interest, the other tools are a thin parting tool made from an industrial hacksaw blade, and a handless Skew (now available from Henry Taylor) and a couple of small box scrapers I've made from old planer blades.
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    Quote Originally Posted by dr4g0nfly View Post
    Please excuse the first 4 tools, this is a generic picture of some of my home made tools.

    The one of interest is the far right. It's a Roberts Sorby handle and Blade I came across without any scrapers. Sorby no longer support this tool so I had to improvise. A bit of High Carbon Ground Flat Stock (key stock) and I was able to make a couple to suit my needs and can make any others I need in the future.

    Look again, the blade is nothing more than 3/8" thick steel rectangular section bar, drilled & tapped at one end and ground to a tang for a handle the other.

    For interest, the other tools are a thin parting tool made from an industrial hacksaw blade, and a handless Skew (now available from Henry Taylor) and a couple of small box scrapers I've made from old planer blades.

    Nice one DF and Matt if you look around for engineering shop that has a 'cold saw' The circular blades are HSS and they break from time to time and therefore useless to them. But ideal for making scraper blades such as your old Sorby.
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    nice ill have a look at that too, but atm im re doing my shed due to moving all the misses crap in to the roof and gett the whole shed so i have crap every where while i build new shelves and get everything set up the way i want it

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    Quote Originally Posted by mat_au View Post
    nice ill have a look at that too, but atm im re doing my shed due to moving all the misses crap in to the roof and gett the whole shed so i have crap every where while i build new shelves and get everything set up the way i want it

    I have just completed something very similar , still getting it organised
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    oh its a pain in the ass its nice to have the bigger room but gutting the shed and then finding new spot for everything is annoying and i cant do any turning till its done grrrr lol

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    Have a garage sale works wonders
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    Quote Originally Posted by oreos40 View Post
    For the Car spring route: no need to anneal first most of the spring shops recurve springs with just brute force. Hammer and a cavity anvil. the spring steel will hold an edge pretty well just take when sharpening. keep the tool cool and don't over heat. Robo brings up a good point, if you are going for deep scraping you have just created an industrial sized chatter tool. A better set up might be a god heavy piece of plain steel with a tool steel insert clamped in the end.
    Ok so I'll ask the question. Why normal steel with tool steel reserved only for the end?

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    Money money money....
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    Quote Originally Posted by deepriver View Post
    Has anyone actually had a file-scraper snap or is this just an urban myth?
    Not personally, but I was in the room when one broke into three pieces. The experience required two people to need a change of underwear.
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    A video showing why you don't use files. http://www.hiltonhandcraft.com/image...perSnapped.avi

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    Mcjing have a few deep hollowing tools at reasonable prices. You make your own handle and cutters also if you like to keep cost down.
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    Quote Originally Posted by View Post
    A video showing why you don't use files. http://www.hiltonhandcraft.com/image...perSnapped.avi
    (It's much faster to download it then view it.)
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