Knowledge You Can Build On — Est. 1998
Scrapers as turning tools
Russ Fairfield
>Who says you can't ride the bevel on a scraper. Used like this, it cuts like a skew chisel with a thick angle, it is sharpened the same way as a skew with a sharp edge and no burr, and the surface finish looks like it was made with a skew.
WARNING:
Do not try doing this until you have mastered the skew chisel.
Re: Scrapers as turning tools
Mike Schwing from Md.
>Personally, I don't believe I've ever heard anyone say that you can't.
Do my eyes deceive me?
steve antonucci
>or have you rounded the lower edge of the scraper in this picture? What was the reason if you did (wouldn't it make a shorter bevel?)?
Steve
Re: Do my eyes deceive me?
Russ Fairfield
>Yes. it is. That's for when I want to roll it up at 45-degrees or so and have the wood approach at an angle. Getting rid of the heel of the bevel is also better for doing inside work when it is used as a "scraper".
Re: Scrapers as turning tools
Brad Vietje
>My bad, Mike,
I'm the guilty one -- in another post I told a beginning turner not to risk rubbing the bevel with a scraper (on the inside of a hollow form or bowl, if I recall.
Of course what Russ is showing is a scraper that isn't being used as a scraper, so in this use IS it a scraper ? Or, might it be a very blunt skew ? I've done this (got the idea from a Dell Stubbs video), but I wasn't about to try to describe this to a novive bowl turner ! And I would not try this inside a hollow form.
The real lesson -- there are no absolute rules, just absolute rulers.
Safe spinning,
Brad Vietje
Thetford, VT
Re: Do my eyes deceive me?
David Galloway
>I will pass this on to Nick Cook!
Re: Scrapers as turning tools
RonZ
>Shhhhh! Russ, it ain't scraping! Us turning artists call it shear-scraping. This way you can charge more and feel elite over the newbies. =o)
Re: Scrapers as turning tools
Charlie Anderson from Southern Maryland
>At our last turner's club meeting, one of the members demonstrated how to make a salad bowl in 15 minutes using only a scraper except for parting off the bowl.
