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Drawknife question
DCM:
Mill bastard will not cut most draw knifes. Hone with a stone being careful to maintain the bevel and keep the back flat pushing towards the blade. Reduce grit and pressure as the edge becomes finer as one would a broadhead or knife. I strop with leather was well to remove the final burr. My drawknife is the sharpest thing in my shop, including my broadheads and skinnin' knife. I've never understood how people use a dull drawknife to back down osage without pulling out the grain behind knots. It certainly is faster, going against the grain and pulling it up as you go, but every time I've tried it I pull splinters off the back of the knots. I go with the grain can cut fine shavings as I approach the soft ring. I reckon I've prolly backed down several hundred staves over the years. Wish I could figure out the dull draw knife secret. Some big names, credible people, have advocated that method.
Pappy:
I keep all mine sharp,I have heard the same thing but I like mine sharp for chasing growth rings.
That is about all I use them for,debark or chasing a ring.Everything else is a rasp and scraper.
Major reduction a bandsaw.Not to primitive but I can live with that I don't guess a farriers rasp or cabnit scraper is to primitive either.By the way what you have in the picture is a spoke shave like the others said,I have never took the time to learn to use one well AL tho I have seen people that could and seem to work good. :)
Pappy
SteveO:
I never understood the whole dull drawknife thing, either. I want mine shaving sharp, and I use it with the bevel up, too. I've finished several bow backs with that alone, except for final sanding. I have an antique spokeshave I use also. I had a newer one, might have been a Stanley, but it didn't work as well as the old one so I passed it on. Those two tools and a scraper are what I have in my hands for 80% of the time I'm making a bow.
Steve
brokennock:
I'm for sharp edged tools, don't feel comfortable when a cuttin tool is dull. I like my spoke shaves. I didn't until i got a few. A new one like yours, then a few old ones of different designs, then a couple OLD ones. They each have things they do better than others, wich means sometimes I get to play with all of them and my draw knife too, as i wreck a stave.
NOMADIC PIRATE:
Do drawknifes and spokeshaves really work on porous wood board bows ???
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