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Blunt Chisel
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DaveL
Old Oak
IIRC Bill Carter who makes those wonderful little planes has used that technic.
Lurker
Old Oak
DaveL":37hey771 said:
Common practice in metalwork* years ago and that’s where Bill adopted the idea from.
Blunt is the wrong word as the two faces need to be honed just like a normal cutting blade.
*and car mechanics, anyone who is old enough to have to diy decoke their car engine will be familiar with doing this
Phil Pascoe
Old Oak
It was talked about on .... another forum ..... years ago. Useful for taking glue runs etc. off.
SamQ aka Ah! Q!
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Video is well worth a watch.
Violin makers do exactly this as well. Always thought it's basically a scraper with a handle.
Violin makers do exactly this as well. Always thought it's basically a scraper with a handle.
SamQ aka Ah! Q!
Old Oak
Time-served metalworkers may wish to correct me, but I think the item Bill is using is a metalwork scraper, used in a woodworking context.
They are employed in, for example, 'scraping in' the bed surfaces of a lathe or milling table. In olden days, the process of "sweating them down" of apprentices, was to have the impatient, inexperienced, teenager manufacture a perfect 1" cube, in copper...with only hand tools, like this scraper. A time-served engineer would then examine each face with an illuminated magnifying/measuring device (name escapes me, "shadowgraph"?) and each face had to have the exact same 'points of contact' seen at considerable magnification. If the sprog had even one face of his cube not conforming to the Head Engineer's edict, he had to start again...if successful, the practice might then be widened to include cubes in aluminium, steel or (particularly sadistic) lead...
Phil Pascoe
Old Oak
My late friend, a sparky, had to file a perfect fully dimensioned cube from a steel ball. :shock:
SamQ aka Ah! Q!":1v645yd3 said:
No, they look like wood chisels to me. Engineers scrapers generally look like this.
https://www.newmantools.com/eclipse/scrapers/index.html
I still have one like the one in the middle which is a bearing scraper.
SamQ aka Ah! Q!
Old Oak
Oops. Thanks Woodster!
Philly
New Shoots
Rob
I have a selection of old chisels and improvised new ones that I use for my planemaking in this style. I touch the end of the chisel against the disc sander, this gives a flat on the end and importantly a burr - this tool can then be used to refine surfaces. Very useful and essentially free as most people have a few rubbish chisels that were used for opening cans of paint that can be used for this.
Hope this helps
Phil
I have a selection of old chisels and improvised new ones that I use for my planemaking in this style. I touch the end of the chisel against the disc sander, this gives a flat on the end and importantly a burr - this tool can then be used to refine surfaces. Very useful and essentially free as most people have a few rubbish chisels that were used for opening cans of paint that can be used for this.
Hope this helps
Phil