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Some new ideas

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Jerry Maske

Some new ideas

Jerry Maske

Playing around with using a scraper to smooth spindle work. I sharpen it by honing OFF the burr and replacing it with a diamond hone laid on the Bevel and moved around in a circular pattern. It's supposed to raise a burr that's much stronger and more even. It smoothed this piece beyond 400 grit sandpaper.

Then, Of course, I had to do something with it, so I did some Arc and Spark decorations and will give it to my bride as a Diddler for her seed planting. I would say she needs something to Diddle with but that would probably get me sleeping on the couch.

Jerry

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john lucas

She'll probably say you don't know Diddly squat. :) Looks great.

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John K Jordan

>>>...Diddler...

I've always heard it as "dibble", perhaps safer:

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/dibble

I like to make them with wire-burned marks every inch for measuring.

JKJ

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Jerry Maske

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Jerry Maske

Yeah, but giving your wife a system to measure with can't ever be a good thing.

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Dick Coers

I wasn't going to touch that "Diddler" word, nope, not going to talk about it's use either! John K is correct, as Wikipedia says.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dibber