Thread: more scraped planes

Simonmags, you can use HSS or even an appropriately ground file.

But TCT seems to be the bit of choice.

I'm selling my kit ( click here ) not because it doesn't work but because I'm getting arthritis in one hand.

Jeremy, onya!

Originally Posted by Sapling

Mic-D, you scraping has bought back some memories for me from my tafe days near enough 30 years ago or maybe a couple more. We had a cast iron block about 3' x 4' inch. First we hack sawed two groves down one of the long faces and 4 groves across the short side of the same face. We then cold chiseled these out to form 3 grooves with a flat a bottom as possible, marked on effort, then filed the base of these grooves flat and even with each other, marked again.We then knocked all the high steel left down to the level of the grooves with a cold chisel, marked again for how close to flat we got it. We then proceeded to file the surface to as flat as we could get it, marked. After this out came the scraper, prussian blue and a perfectly flat block to measure against and we were marked on the results of this effort on our cast iron (scrape, try scrape). We worked on this for weeks and achieved great results.(Our teacher was doing an aluminium head for his car at the same time using the same method) Our scrapers were files with there teeth ground off the end of both sides and the tip slightly radius. These worked beautifully and could be readily re-edged on the grinder. Lots of sweat went into those cast blocks. I can see how you could get great results on your planes.

Wow that brings back memories from Echuca Tech in the early fifties. Am I a dinosaur or what?

Mic-d, I was going to ask what straight edge you are using but I think I can see the end of a Paul Williams drive-by gloat.