Inlay Scraper
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Inlay scrapers came up in Peter George’s thread about his inlayed frame ( https://woodworkingmasterclasses.com/discussions/topic/inlayed-frame/ ). I promised to dig through my notes from class to find Paul’s shop-made inlay scraper. Unfortunately, I didn’t have any notes, but a classmate had two photos, which are attached.
The tool has a slotted piece housed vertically into a second, horizaontal piece of wood. The slot in the vertical member is a saw kerf and the card scraper is held in the kerf with a C-clamp. If I recall correctly, the vertical piece slides (tightly) in the housing. As you can see, you can arrange for an opening of whatever thickness you like between the scraper and the larger piece of wood. The assembly is placed into your vice, which is what locks down your setting. Although I’m saying “vertical,” you can see it is really at an angle which, when combined with the angle of the kerf, gives you the right presentation angle for the card scraper to cut.
If I recall correctly, Paul sets the card scraper so that the gap below the scraper increases slightly as you move away from the vertical post. You cut your rough stock to a bit more than the desired thickness but thin enough to fit in the wider section of the gap and then pull the material through the scraper. With each successive pass, the piece gets thinner and moves inwards towards the vertical post, where the gap is thinnest and is the desired final thickness.
You’ll need to play. We didn’t use it in class, but saw him at his bench using this as we worked on our stuff. He was preparing material to laminate into trim for one of his toolboxes. It’s probably in one of his blog photos if there’s a photo there of a drawer with shelf liner and some striped trim moulding holding down the liner. He was preparing narrow material. The final piece was probably around 1/8″ by 1/8″. I don’t know how wide you could go before you get into trouble.
Hope this helps.
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