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Nice pile of shavings. What surprises me is how quickly a scraper will get too hot to hold if you are using your bare hands. I am sure yours got plenty hot as much as you did.
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...hangs his head in shame and vows once again to learn how to sharpen a scraper.....
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Yup - it looks like that scraper was sharpened correctly.
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(11-18-2017, 10:26 PM)Woodcut Wrote: Am making 4 sets of shaker oval boxes out of maple, sizes 0 thru 4, and thought I would scrape the bands before shaping them into oval boxes. Much easier to get most of the finishing prep done while the stock is flat.
Anyway, I made a small pile of scraper shavings and thought I'd share.
![[Image: 4893.jpg]](https://s26.postimg.org/dn2o1dn7t/4893.jpg)
By my rough calculations, scraping both sides of the bands, it comes to about 23 square feet of scraping.
Time for some schnapps!
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What brand of scraper are you running there. Homemade, production made?
Looks like it must have some V-8 power in it.
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The Revos apparently are designed to clamp railroad ties and pull together horrifically prepared joints
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Beautiful! Isn’t a sharp scraper wonderful?
I remember getting my first card scrapers. Once I learned to use them, I was thinking, “Where have you been all my woodworking life?!?!?” Can’t imagine doing woodwork without them now.
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Ok thanks
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Those are picture perfect shavings. I have ten card scrapers, I'm lucky if 3 out of ten work that well.
Just curious though. What is the the board upon which the shavings sit? Almost appears to be a sheet of galvanized on top of some plywood. But my perceptions may be off, I'm on a second glass of fine Spanish red.
