[Ansteorra-archery] Bowyerthon '05 another Tool Tip

[Eadric Anstapa]

Rockler.com and woodcraft.com also have good cabinet scraper sets.  
starting at 3 scrapers for $12.99   both those places also have stores 
spread around the country.  Both have stores in Stargate.  They also 
sell scraper burnishers and holders for scrapers.

Cabinet scrapers are great tools.  For do-it yourselfers as a kid I was 
taught that you make you cabinet scrapers out of old handsaw blades.  
Glenn Saint Charles in is classic Billets to Bow book also talks about 
using pieces of sheet glass as scrapers.

Regards,

-EA


Sylvrfalcn at aol.com wrote:

>Glass smooth, without sandpaper. Huh?
>
>Friends and fellow archers,
>  Nowadays if we want to make a piece of wood smooth, we just break out the 
>sandpaper and have at it. But how did our ancestors in the middle ages get wood 
>incredibly smooth with no sandpaper to be had? They used special woodplanes 
>called "smoothing planes", and they used the topic of this tool tip, the 
>scraper. Modern cabinet makers and traditional woodworkers still use them, and 
>they're currently referred to as cabinet scrapers or card scrapers. Your average 
>cabinet scraper is just a thin sheet of tool steel, cut into a rectangular shape 
>roughly two inches wide and five inches long. By properly dressing and 
>burnishing the edges (gobs of info on the internet, so I won't go into the mechanics 
>here) you wind up with a tool that "scrapes" incredibly fine shavings from 
>the surface of the wood. The result is a wonderfully smooth surface, so smooth 
>you really need not bother with sandpaper before applying a finish to your bow. 
>And here's the kicker; sandpaper's not very economical, it clogs up and wears 
>out, so you go through a lot of it. One properly maintained scraper will do 
>literally hundreds of bows, and you can pick up a set of four scrapers for 
>twenty bucks (check out www.traditionalwoodworker.com).
>  Bye bye sandpaper, hello cabinet scraper. A cheap, simple, efficient tool, 
>with no moving parts, and nothing to replace, what's not to love about that?
>
>Cheers,
>Robert of Yorkshire
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