Mr Ed
Established Member
After all the discussion about Garrett Hacks scratch stock seen at West Dean and the number of people planning to crib his idea, I thought I would start a new thread to see how we all interpret it.
Here is my effort;
I decided to make 2 while I was at it. Used a piece of oak for the stock - originally I tried cherry but found it would not take a thread in the end grain, whereas the oak will do nicely.
As you can see, I have yet to achieve success on my thumbscrew quest, so for the time its just a couple of cap screws.
The blades are sections cut from a Bahco card scraper, which works brilliantly. The disadvantage is that I destroyed 2 hacksaw blades to cut it (1 blade per 2 inch cut!) as the material is so hard. The scraper only costs about £4 and would make 8 or so blades so is good value and seems to me to be the right kind of steel for this job. In fact, I'll probably continue using the scraper just with the 40mm missing off the end.
It works really well, only issue is that you need to acquire a certain hand position to avoid stabbing yourself in the palm with the profiles on the unused end of the cutter!
Would be interesting to see scratch stocks that members have made, either this type or others.
Cheers, Ed.
NB - PaulO already posted his version in the thread on thumbscrews, would show the image here but don't know how to...
Here is my effort;
I decided to make 2 while I was at it. Used a piece of oak for the stock - originally I tried cherry but found it would not take a thread in the end grain, whereas the oak will do nicely.
As you can see, I have yet to achieve success on my thumbscrew quest, so for the time its just a couple of cap screws.
The blades are sections cut from a Bahco card scraper, which works brilliantly. The disadvantage is that I destroyed 2 hacksaw blades to cut it (1 blade per 2 inch cut!) as the material is so hard. The scraper only costs about £4 and would make 8 or so blades so is good value and seems to me to be the right kind of steel for this job. In fact, I'll probably continue using the scraper just with the 40mm missing off the end.
It works really well, only issue is that you need to acquire a certain hand position to avoid stabbing yourself in the palm with the profiles on the unused end of the cutter!
Would be interesting to see scratch stocks that members have made, either this type or others.
Cheers, Ed.
NB - PaulO already posted his version in the thread on thumbscrews, would show the image here but don't know how to...
