Steal for Scratch Stocks
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I have been experimenting with scratch stocks and I wonder whether spring steal that is .032″ thick is adequate. I see that the blank Hock scratch stock blades are .05″. That is a pretty big difference. (I know — everyone says all you have to do is find old card scrapers or old, dead, useless saws from garbage cans behind flee markets to recover steal from. But I have already sacrificed my one extra scraper and there are very few used tools for sale where I live. The few junkers that exist in antique and junk sores are priced as if they were collectables. So I am considering buying some steal online. Advice would be much appreciated. Thanks!
17 February 2019 at 4:33 pm #555154I made scratch stock to restore the sole of a bead plane, that was clamped in a jig that scraped a fresh profile into the sole. I used a paint scraper blade, sawed and filed and it worked great. This is the link
17 February 2019 at 4:35 pm #555155https://www.lowes.com/pd/Warner-4-in-2-Edge-Paint-Scraper-Blade/1000024769
18 February 2019 at 1:45 am #555164Steel cut from an old hand saw was a traditional source. Also pieces of old bandsaw blades.
Old rip saws like Disston number 7’s or 8’s were good. I see them sans handles for a buck or two in scrap yards. They were thicker than saws made after wwI.
the band saw steel also was thicker than current versions, so saw mill band saws. Here in the pacific nw the supply is seemingly endless.
They were also a source for scraper blades.
Thanks for the response. I will try to find scrap yards that have spring steel, although the ones I have seen in my region seem rather limited in this respect. (One guy in a junk yard laughed when I asked about old saw metal and such. He asked if I wanted some structural aluminum or washing machine motors instead. Sigh.) Thanks again.
20 February 2019 at 11:32 pm #555258Sanford, An old Sawzall blade is bi-metal, and can be used for scratch stock.
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