Scrapers

[lurker]

I've been making new ones (old cheapo saw) and refurbishing existing scrapers.

I used a big cheap screwdriver to burnish them with.
However I thought I'd make proper one ( I refuse to buy such an elementary tool.

Any advice regarding Steel to use ? preferably souced free!!
I thought about the steel rod in an old inkjet printer? Anyone know what these are made of? assume SS

 

[bugbear]

https://www.ukworkshop.co.uk/forums/view ... sher#87519

http://www.cianperez.com/Wood/WoodDocs/ ... rapers.htm

http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Tools/Scrap ... ml#details

BugBear

 

[lurker]

Thanks BB

Just what I wanted !
Will print off the referenced "how toos" when the boss is not looking!

Will run up that tool (pictured in Alf's post ) this evening.
Couldn't get around the idea I needed a long shaft of Steel

The idea of recycling an old Router bit appeals.

 

[Colin C]

Lurker

You can also an old triangle file but you will have to grind the faces flat and round the corners.

I made my first one this way and still have it some where .

 

[woodbloke]

Lurker - I've made some cabinet scrapers from old saw blades and they work very well. I used to burnish them with a half round file (before I bought a proper burnisher), where the teeth end and you have smooth steel just before the handle starts. The steel from a file is about as hard as you're going to get - Rob

 

[lurker]

Colin & Woodbloke,

Strange you should say that.

When I cleared out my (deceased) Dad's workshop I found a file with all the teeth ground off.
Knowing that file steel is brittle I wondered why he had done it.

Seems I have a handled burnisher in my kit all along and did not know!!!

I really wish I had got into this woodwork thing before the old guy passed away - I've so many questions I'm sure he would have been able to answer.

Will still make the thing BB pionted out though

 

[Paul Kierstead]

I used a big cheap screwdriver to burnish them with.
However I thought I'd make proper one ( I refuse to buy such an elementary tool.

But yet, you bought a screwdriver (probably a flat head at that), something considerably simpler. Now I am not saying don't make your own, but the commercial ones are carefully shaped and are of the correct steel with nice handles (well the good ones anyway). Tisn't as elementary as it looks. That said, you should be able to do a very good job with any old bit of hard (harder then the scraper), smooth steel.

 

[bugbear]

generic point - the burnisher will work better if it's nicely polished.

BugBear

 

[Jake]

If anyone wants one, I have a bunch of dowel pins somewhere - I ordered one for use as a burnisher, not realising one was a packet of ?ten?. About 12mm by 50mm. Dead hard polished steel.

Yours for the price of p&p.

 

[Chris Knight]

I am pretty slick at sharpening scrapers in a thoroughly traditional manner but IMHO nothing beats this little gadget
http://www.axminster.co.uk/product.asp? ... e=1&jump=0

I use it all the time for sharpening scrapers. It excels for intricately shaped ones - eg as formed to match a moulding.

 

[woodbloke]

Chris - agree, got one for sharpening my pocket knife (SS blade) great little gadget - Rob

 

[newt]

By the way most cheap imported screwdrivers are about as hard as butter.

 

[Shultzy]

I have a box of old valves that I see now can be used as burnishers. I knew they would come in handy one day. :lol:

 

[ivan]

Tilgear carry a range of cobalt HSS (metalwork) lathe tool blanks, including round ones. Quite a bit harder than a screwdriver stem! Just right for making the burnisher in the link above. (Parting tool blanks should be about right for bespoke marking knives, too)

 

[David C]

Burnishers do need to be hard and polished to work well.

I doubt many screwdriver shafts are up to the job.

We used to use small gudgeon pins out of engines.

Ron Hock makes a nice minimalist one without handle.

David Charlesworth