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27 May 2020 at 11:36 am #663071
Any suggestions on where to order from in France or the Middle East?
I used Wellermart brand in the U.S. and have been very happy with the results (and they have a lot of selection for colors), but I’m down to my last bit of it.
29 July 2017 at 7:18 am #314126For getting a perfectly 90 degree edge on the card, I made a simple L-shaped piece of wood that is exactly square. I just place that on my diamond stone and place the scraping card against it, and then when I slide the card back and forth against the block it creates a perfect perpendicular edge. I move the guide around a lot as I’m doing it so I don’t wear one part of the plate unevenly. You want to keep the same face of the scraping card against the wood as you work from coarse to fine, that way if your block is actually 89.5 degrees it doesn’t matter. Getting really crisp perfect 90 degree edges is the hard part of sharpening scraping cards.
for forming the burr, like really if you are making a guide you are making it harder than it has to be. Just tilt the burnisher very slightly and draw it along the card. It doesn’t matter that much the angle, so much as it’s a consistent angle and smooth (light) pressure.
My last suggestion: when you are figuring it out, practice on a really dense piece of wood like maple, or a knot on a less dense piece of wood. Scraping cards don’t work very well on pine or oak with their larger fibers, at least for me.
Hope this helps!
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