Burnt Thumbs

Re: Burnt Thumbs

James Watriss

>Find a thin refrigerator magnet... the kind generally used by various companies for advertising, where they print a company logo on a business card-ish sized magnet. Stick that on your scraper. Plastic's a poor conductor of heat, so it insulates, and it'll help you remember which edge you were using. (that is, whichever one of the 4 was working the best.)

Re: Burnt Thumbs

Christopher Schwarz

>I stick a refridgerator magnet to the scraper, which works a bit like a heat sink, I suppose. It's not a cure-all, but it does help significantly.

Chris

Re: more tools!

paul womack

>Either use a better plane, to reduce the need to scrape at all, or get a scraper plane. The vary from the original Stanley #80 to the mighty LN #112.

BugBear

I smell a promotional giveaway

Eric Hedberg

>You guys are on the ball with the magnets. I never thought of that and I'm a sucker for a freebee magnet at the pizza shop. Bet we'll start seeing them now at woodworking shows or hey Chris, stick one in the magazine(s). Put handy burring tips on it! Of course, the guys up North are probably already at work on some ergonomic version with rare earth magnets;-) Eric (Whose previous method was bandaids.....after he toasted his digits)

Re: Burnt Thumbs

William Duffield, on the Cohansey

>Get a few extra scrapers, and swap when they start to get warm. They're not very expensive, and this strategy can actually save you a little time, since you can sharpen and hook a bunch of them at once.

Re: Burnt Thumbs

Jim in Burlington On

>You can buy rubber "thumbs" from some business stores and sewing specialty stores. Be forewarned I know a guy that actually wore out his thumb socket cartilidge doing a lot of hand scraping on boat repairs.

Re: Burnt Thumbs - athletic tape...

Jonathan Kaplan (OR)

>I wrap my thumbs in a few layers of ordinary white athletic tape before starting a long scraping session -- seems to work just fine.

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