Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: DuBois on May 24, 2013, 10:10:46 am
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I need to get a good scraper for tillering. I been using a lockblade knife so far but I think I better invest in some better tools. What do you think is the best one and where from? Thanks, Marco.
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Check out Lee Valley online...do a search for their "Super-Hard Curved Scraper Sets" It runs about $14 and you get 4 different style/shape scrapers...I love the goose neck one for character bows too! Good luck.
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Will do. Thanks Lee
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Lee do you recommend the .4mm or .6mm? Which one do you use?
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I like the .6mm best as I find the .4mm flex just a touch more than I like and you can end up with a slight hump. I have both thickness but use the .6mm more often...they make life sooo much easier when chasing a difficult or thing ring. Good luck!
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The key to a good scraper is the edge you put on it. Putting a good edge on a scraper takes a little know-how. I follow Dean Torges method and get great results (explained in detail in Hunting the Osage Bow). I could try to explain it in three easy steps, but it wouldn't do you any good. One quick tip I can tell you though is that you do not need an expensive burnisher for putting a good edge on. You just need some very hard steel with a round blemish free edge. I use the back-side of my needle-nose pliers and it works great.
I love using a scraper around someone who has never seen one before....there is this disbelief that this unassuming square piece of steel can pull long clean curls away from a wood bow stave. ;D
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Thanks for the info, I'll have to add those to my wish list ;)
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The key to a good scraper is the edge you put on it. Putting a good edge on a scraper takes a little know-how. I follow Dean Torges method and get great results (explained in detail in Hunting the Osage Bow). I could try to explain it in three easy steps, but it wouldn't do you any good. One quick tip I can tell you though is that you do not need an expensive burnisher for putting a good edge on. You just need some very hard steel with a round blemish free edge. I use the back-side of my needle-nose pliers and it works great.
I love using a scraper around someone who has never seen one before....there is this disbelief that this unassuming square piece of steel can pull long clean curls away from a wood bow stave. ;D
Any other inexpensive things you can use as burnishers? I am using some screw driver I have that is made of some crazy hard metal right now, but it is not working super great. I have thought of using a marble rolling pin, but than again I am thinking it will just scratch the marble and not work at all.
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Lee valley also sells a small burnisher ( just a small piece of carbide in a handle) Don't remember the cost ,as I bought it 20+ years ago. The only one I ever needed . Tried the big, fancy one and didn't really like it.
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(http://)$ 7.50 works better than a screw driver etc. Easy to control
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How do you sharpen those curved ones?
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7.50 is not bad. If you can't manage that maybe try your local machinest for a worn out bearing reamer.
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How do you sharpen those curved ones?
Slowly and carefully ;)
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My best scraper is one I made from a circular saw blade. I put a good edge on it when I made it several years ago and it is still working great.
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I use a roundfile,the uncut part next to the handle to burnish my scraper.
That works pretty well.
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My best scrapers are made from my old mitre saw and skil saw blades. I cut em up with an angle grinder and it leaves the bur on naturally.
(http://i1231.photobucket.com/albums/ee503/Jamey_Burkhart/3DCC4E2E-CA8A-4BA9-9CF8-230C31A7FDF3-16331-000027EA96D9FBF8.jpg)
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I like that okie!! Looks like every scraper you'll ever need you could even scrape one of those poplar paddle bows ;) >:D
Now if only i could find someone with an angle grinder...
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My best scrapers are made from my old mitre saw and skil saw blades. I cut em up with an angle grinder and it leaves the bur on naturally.
(http://i1231.photobucket.com/albums/ee503/Jamey_Burkhart/3DCC4E2E-CA8A-4BA9-9CF8-230C31A7FDF3-16331-000027EA96D9FBF8.jpg)
Cool!
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time to cut up my dads saw blades ::) but seriously cool idea! makes for more solid and strong scrapers
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I bought all kinds of scrapers. But half sissors eye, glass lens for dipps sppons with a edge grinded on also for dips. I have to 2 fix blade knives I've maked I've formed to up and put handles on each side works great. I bought some sort of a single wooden handle cabent scrapper looks turn centery. Removable diffenent size (thickest) blades. Works really well for removeing lot's of wood. Big long wide shavings. I use differnt scrapers diffent woods,bows. It all depends. Some seams to work better than others on differnt bows.
WHATS WITH THAT. Just the way it is.