Free scrapers that work

Video is good and interesting, but man I loved that ending shot!

Is that where you live?

-- Todd A. Clippinger, Montana, http://americancraftsmanworkshop.com

Yes, My wife and I live on a lake in Maine. That is a shot traveling down the lake last October in my homemade pontoon boat (see other projects) after all the tourists had gone and given me back my lake. It gets quiet, calm and the fish jump and the loons loon. And since I love winter, it’s my own bit of heaven.

-- The smell of wood, coffee in the cup, the wife let's me do my thing, the lake is peaceful. http://gagnerwebsite.com/Deceiver/Craftsman_on_the_lake/Craftsman_on_the_lake.html

thats cool but how do you not cut your hand on the glass

-- kosta Virginia Beach, VA http://www.kostasworkshop.blogspot.com/

Daniel,
Where about in Maine, I go to Northern Maine 3 times a year…. I go all the way up. Madawaska, Fort Kent area. We have a house on the Island at long lake. It’s pellitier Island and we got those loons and king fishers. I love the peace and quiet.

-- Live by what you believe, not what they want you to believe.

Interesting video, another usefull skill to keepp in mind! thanks for posting.

-- Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain" Frank Lloyd Wright

Thanks daniel you,ve just solved one of my tool problems here.

-- if the hand is not working it is not a pure hand

Nice trick, I don’t know about barehanding them though… maybe with some leather gloves. It’s remarkable how well that was working considering you’d expect glass not to have the burr typical of metal scrapers.

-- "We are what we repeatedly do; excellence then is not an act but a habit." ---Aristotle

Ditto on the gloves.

-- DocK, WV

My father in law was a 3rd generation professional woodworker who did unbelievable work and all he ever used as as scraper was glass.

-- W James Brokenbourgh Custom furniture maker http://artisticwoodstudio.com/

Answers to questions.

getneds: I’m in southern Maine.. where all the tourists come up from Mass each summer. Madawaska’s a-way up there in noman’s land.

You really don’t need gloves. When you break a bottle or a glass in the sink, because it’s curved you get shards that have edges that break on a skewed angle, very sharp. Window pane, if one is a little careful won’t even bother your hands at all. The edges are mostly right angle.

I made a lot of acoustic guitars in the late 70’s. Put myself through college doing it and repairs. I always used glass. It always got the nicest finish compared to other stuff and was good for taking down purfling, the banding on the edges.

-- The smell of wood, coffee in the cup, the wife let's me do my thing, the lake is peaceful. http://gagnerwebsite.com/Deceiver/Craftsman_on_the_lake/Craftsman_on_the_lake.html

Very informative, thank you!

-- spanky46 -- Never enough clamps...Never enough tools...Never enough time.

Thanks Dan great info

Triple ditto on the….....GLOVES…please.!!!
Great idea and cheap.

thanks for the post Dan. I like using scrapers and will give glass a try.

-- gjd Southcentral Wisconsin

Do you guys sand after scraping?

-- "some old things are lovely, warm still with life ... of the forgotten men who made them." - D.H. Lawrence Wake Up America!! Please read; http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/01/26-0