Cabinet Scrapper and Card Scrapper
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13 November 2016 at 12:58 am #142383
I have these two tools but never use them. Anyone use them a lot?
13 November 2016 at 2:32 pm #142386I like card scrapers for irregular (non-flat) surfaces, to remove small defects such as tearout and to remove pencil marks, stains and the like. I also use them to refine shapes. Properly sharpened, they don’t scrape the wood, but they cut and produce shavings, just like a plane or spokeshave. Scrapers were the sandpaper of the past.
A good and quick project to test a scraper is making a spatula (Paul Sellers video project). Instead of sandpaper, use the card scraper. You could even refrain from using the spokeshave, it only takes longer then. You can actually make a spatula from an irregularly shaped piece firewood, using only an axe, a chisel and a card scraper (drill for the hole, if you want one).
The very good thing about scrapers is, that you can shape them easily with a file (or grinder, if you like). So you can make curves to scrape the inside of a bowl or the outside of a round table leg, and much more. And you can use any flat piece of unhardened steel to make your own scrapers – old sawblade for example.
Apart from that, each handtool has its own area of application – and appearance; some tools are unknown in some parts of the world. You can best find out by using them.
Sharpening a card scraper is a very special process, but I am sure, that most amateur woodworkers would use scrapers a lot, if they had someone to sharpen them 😉
The only downside of scrapers is, that dulling the edge takes little more time than resharpening it.
Dieter
PS: Sharpening a scraper: Look for a video by Paul Sellers and another one by Chris Buchanan, two alternative well working methods.
PPS: I don’t know anything about cabinet scrapers, but I think, basically they are scrapers with a holding block. Hopefully the next poster will tell you.
- This reply was modified 7 years, 6 months ago by Hugo Notti.
- This reply was modified 7 years, 6 months ago by Hugo Notti.
- This reply was modified 7 years, 6 months ago by Hugo Notti.
13 November 2016 at 6:49 pm #142401Watch Paul Sellers, Curtis Buchanan or other pros scrape and you will start to believe in miracles until you got your own 😀
Dieter
PS: I wrote “Chris Buchanan” in my first post, it should be “Curtis Buchanan”. He is a chairmaker from Tennessee and posted some very instructive videos on youtube.
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