Tool Tweaks #1: Better Scraper Tuning
Just responded to a post with the following, but thought I’d add it to my blog too: I finally got great results out of my scrapers – for fine work… Even though I was honing up to 6000 (waterstones) on the sides and edges of my scrapers, I was burnishing with a HSS round stock turning gouge that seemed pretty hard and smooth to me…(I’ve been too cheap to buy a “real” burnisher). Well, it had been tearing the softer steel that I had honed fine,...
