Help me troubleshoot my scraper...

Re: Help me troubleshoot my scraper...

Jim in Burlington On

>When you sharpened the blade did it turn out convex? If it's flat try setting the scraper blade in on a piece of glass its really easy to get the blade set in there to low and the blade corners start catching.

Re: Help me troubleshoot my scraper...

Dale Stansbery

>What angle does your blade sit in the body when attacking the wood. If it's tilted back from vertical, then putting a bow in it would lift the center, I think. Sitting here looking at my 112, the blade will only tilt forward, and can't come up to full vertical. Of course it doesn't have an adjustment to bow the blade either. Likewise the Stanley 80 blade is tilted forward, and the screw that sets the bow then sets the depth as well.

Re: Help me troubleshoot my scraper...

Eric Hartunian

>The blade is totally flat. It makes sense that the blade should tilt forward, and then the bevel or burr of the blade can do the scraping. I thought a lot about this, and studied the pics in the magazine some more, but my scraper looks just like the one in the magazine. So my problem with all that is it worked for him, but not me? What gives? I may try turning it upside down and trying again, this would change the angle and allow me to try the blade forward option (I think?...). Thanks for the ideas, I'll let you know what I figure out.

Thanks,

Eric

Re: Help me troubleshoot my scraper...

William Duffield, on the Cohansey

>Which issue of FWW contains the plans for this tool? Maybe there's something wrong with the plans?

Re: Help me troubleshoot my scraper...

Eric Hartunian

>The issue was last years tools and shops.

Thanks

Re: Help me troubleshoot my scraper...

Jack Guzman from Maine

>I just looked at the article and the only thing I can think of that will cause your problem is if you got the blade in the plane at the opposite angle.If the top of the blade is angled away from the side the screw is on,it should work. If the blade top is angled toward the screw side however,tightening the screw will push the center of the scaper up and off the work to be scraped.Unless I'm misunderstanding your problem---Jack