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<\/a><\/p>\nNevertheless, I’ll add a few words to clarify. The small block of 3\/4″\u00a0 plywood has squared edges. It is captured in my tail-vise along with a fine grit diamond sharpening plate.\u00a0 The wooden block on top of the curved scraper is attached to the scraper with very thin double sticky tape, creating a handle to maneuver the scraper easily. It is now a simple matter to form a nice sharp, square edge on the curved edge of the scraper. I have some ceramic stones that I used next to polish the edge further.\u00a0 I finished off the edge by rubbing some white polishing compound onto a square of MDF, clamping it up like the sharpening stones and buffing the edge of the scraper to a high shine. Before removing the “handle” polish the face of the scraper on your finest stones (I use a King 8000 grit water stone). To draw the burr I did most of the work with the burnisher flat on the surface, followed by a very light burnishing on the edge itself to raise a slight burr. This worked very effectively!<\/p>\n
By the way, a few weeks ago I was visited by Nancy Malott who came from Kansas to learn plane making.\u00a0 She made a very nice smoother patterned after one of my Dad’s planes. In case you are wondering, the tooth brush is used to clear swarf\u00a0 (man, I love that word) from the face of the stone.<\/p>\n Until next time!<\/em> If you follow this blog at all then you know that I recently built a violin.\u00a0 Violin making is a scraper intensive task — mostly using curved scrapers.\u00a0 The scrapers have to be sharpened quite well to function effectively on … Continue reading <\/a><\/p>\n
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