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There is a lot of postings of beautiful planes at SMC...all wonderful! Just a reminder the card scraper is a great under used, humble , inexpensive tool that is a wonderful complement to the hand plane.... It is amazing what a nicely tuned scraper will do. Sandvick is an old favorite and I think they are still around.
"All great work starts with love .... then it is no longer work"
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I couldn't agree more. Some of the finest finishes I have achived have been with a scraper.
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I remember using those in High School....
I need to revisit them..
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Card scrapers are the gateway drug to handplane addiction.
For a powertool junkie its the first, tentative step towards the slide...
Inexpensive, easy to setup, forgiving in their use.
Before you know it you're {unconsciously} changing the angle of attack, opting for slightly less burr, pushing instead of pulling, or pulling instead of pushing, using a sheer angle...
all things that help you to later understand the minutia of handplane technique.
Wonderful little critters they are....
~Dan
Our friends at Lee Valley have made them even easier to use and sharpen too:
http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.a...=1,310&p=32669
http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.a...310,41070&ap=1
I actually even have one of the old Sandvicks that Mark mentions too. I bought it many years ago, one of my first purchases, still works.
Last edited by Mike Holbrook; 04-02-2005 at 5:05 PM.
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I couldn't agree more, Mark!Originally Posted by Mark Singer
Card scrapers are also very easy to make out of any springy steel. For example, if one were to ruin a Japanese-style pull-saw by using it to cut plywood one could make several nice scrapers out of the blade. DAMHIKT!
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James Krenov says that "the craftsman lives in a
condition where the size of his public is almost in
inverse proportion to the quality of his work."
(James Krenov, A Cabinetmaker's Notebook, 1976.)
I guess my public must be pretty huge then.
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Thanks for the reminder! The card scraper is the first hand tool on my list
Jeff Sudmeier
"It's not the quality of the tool being used, it's the skills of the craftsman using the tool that really matter. Unfortunately, I don't have high quality in either"
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Only slightly more sophisticated than a piece of broken glass....which also can be handy at times, believe it or not.
““Perhaps then, you will say, ‘But where can one have a boat like that built today?’ And I will tell you that there are still some honest men who can sharpen a saw, plane, or adze...men (who) live and work in out of the way places, but that is lucky, for they can acquire materials for one third of city prices. Best, some of these gentlemen’s boatshops are in places where nothing but the occasional honk of a wild goose will distract them from their work.” -- L Francis Herreshoff
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Wonderful tool and finish, but do my fingers get tired fast!
Once my Jatoba Kebiki is finished, my next tool project will likely be a scraper shave.
Of course, the way this Jatoba works, that may be awhile
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