Thread: Scrapers

I'm beginning to think there are more takes on sharpening scrapers than actual scrapers

David Savage is pulling off big shavings at the end of this:
Learn to use Scraper Planes DVD guide | Fine Furniture Maker

And this Scot (Dougal Charteris) in the video seems to spend more time on the scraper than some others I have seen:
Furniture Makers Apprentice. A site dedicated to the art and craft of Traditional fine furniture making abd woodworking.

A little bit freaky.

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Originally Posted by pmcgee

A little bit freaky.

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Are you pointing at the scraper insert for Bailey planes? They've been around for yonks, but I've never tried one meself. I have read a couple of reviews that were rather lukewarm. They are probably a poor man's way to get a scraping plane & avoid those cooked fingers, but I reckon if you are into scraping large areas, spend a few more $$s & get yourself a real scraping plane. My Veritas scraper gets used a lot, and I can happily recommend it (other brands no doubt work equally well!).....

Cheers,

I looked at buying a Hamler insert several years ago but he'd stopped making them at that stage. I ended up getting the Veritas too, which gets regular use. I spoke to an Australian cabinet maker who trained in London where he met a French cabinet maker who used only scrapers to shape cabriole legs from band sawn blanks. So they had a race because the the Aussie said a spokeshave would be faster. The French won something for a change

Originally Posted by mic-d

......a French cabinet maker who used only scrapers to shape cabriole legs from band sawn blanks. So they had a race because the the Aussie said a spokeshave would be faster. The French won something for a change

Not totally surprised by that outcome, Michael. When I first started making cabriole legs I tried using spokeshaves, but found them of limited use, particularly on some woods, because of the grain direction changes. Veritas hadn't started making their s'shaves yet, so I was using an old 151, with a mouth as big as a politician's - maybe I'd manage better with my Veritas shaves, but I'm used to rasps & scrapers, now.....

Cheers,

Making a simple Chair scraper - Aled Lewis @ LN (44min)

Srapers for what? Wagon wheel spokes?

A British-schooled violin luthier showed me how to make small scrapers from the spring steel used for banding lumber. I have 30kg of the 1.25" strapping and the results are quite dramatically better than sand paper shredding fuzzies.
As you all know, scrapers predate sandpaper by centuries.
I will never get my jollies forming a chair leg with scrapers BUT, for fine finishing without embedded sand grains, I am totally sold on those tools.
It's even more fun to make them.

As a note added in proof, read ch 11 in Leonard Lee's book. P141 is all about the virtues of scrapers made from lumber strapping. Reads like he caught up to what everybody already knew!