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A good tool to have for warbow making?

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cadet:
I use steel pallet packing strap.  I put it low in the jaws of a vice, dress one edge square using a file, and burnish with a screwdriver shank.  It costs me nothing.
Re spokeshaves: there's spokeshaves, and there's spokeshaves.  Cheap ones are more trouble than they're worth, with poor geometry etc, and no amount of tuning will fix them.  Good ones, well made, well tuned, are brilliant.  I have vintage Stanleys and an HNT Gordon; also some old wooden ones, and new one one I made under Claire Minihan's tutelage.  They can all be tuned to do different things.

Ruddy Darter:
I know what you mean regarding spokeshave, I managed to tune up a cheap one that works nicely that takes off nice shavings, another one I have I just can get to work well.
I managed to pick up one of these locally, I suppose I could of made one but it was reasonably cheap and is nicely made, the tension screw puts a nice curve on the scraper.  I reckon that's my scraping needs taken care of, and now that I know about rolling a burr too I should be sorted.

 R.D.

willie:

--- Quote ---I made one for nothing if that's a good price. Doesn't look as fancy as the Veritas but it works.........I use it a lot. It's my primary tillering tool.
--- End quote ---
DC, I made one that works ok just a wooden holder for the scraper card. Do you file the edge square on yours? or does is have an angle? I think Bob W mentioned that the one Dean sold has a 45 angle.

DC:
Mine is a 45. At the moment I'm using a blade made from an old file. I didn't temper it so it's file hard. I can sharpen it but I don't think I can roll the edge. Stays sharp a long time though. Before this I used a 45 with a tempered blade so I could roll the edge. If I got it right it would peel off wood like a spoke shave. It was a touch soft so it didn't keep an edge long.

willie:
thanks DC

do you hold it vertical? which way do you roll the bevel? or make the cut, relative to the 45?

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