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7/20/05, 2:34 AM #1

mike2me
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mike2me

>As a burgeoning hand tool user/collector I have gradually been trying to master the technique of use of each tool or skill that I stumble upon. I have gradually grown more interested in scraping and have been in part due to reading from various sources how smooth a surface one obtains. I have become confident in proper preparation of the scraper which has been quite helpful but as I have tried to use them I find that I get alternately smooth and rough spots. I know I am probably raising grain in the rough spots but wonder how I can stop this result. I have used pine and oak. Mike

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7/20/05, 4:14 AM #2

Steve Elliott
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>Scrapers work best on hard woods, so I would expect good results on the oak. Soft pine isn't a good candidate for scraping because even a well-prepared scraper will tend to dig in. Maybe you're using hard pine, but for a scraper to work well the wood needs to be fairly uniform in density. Any species with very soft earlywood alternating with hard latewood rings (Douglas fir comes to mind) just won't scrape well.

You didn't mention the type of scraper you're using, but if it's a card scraper, I'd suggest pulling it toward you instead of pushing it. Both ways work, but pulling is more stable and makes it easier to control the angle of the scraper to the wood surface.

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7/20/05, 10:42 AM #3

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>Try some soft maple or hard maple instead of pine or oak to get your technique down. Soft woods such as pine are somewhat more difficult to scrape consistently than hardwoods. As for oak, sometimes you "catch" it just wrong and grab a ray or a channel. Ralph Brendler has a good site for reference.

Brendler's Scraper site

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