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Re: Thanks! & Cabinet Scrapers...Picture
By:Gary Toffelmire
Date: 1/11/1999, 7:59 pm
In Response To: Re: Thanks! & Cabinet Scrapers...Picture (Marc Leroux)

A little difficult to describe but you sharpern it by making the edge square to the face of the scaper this corner should be nice and sharp. You then use a tool to roll edge over making a hook. I have used a screwdriver shaft but they are only marginaly hard enough. Put the scraper in a padded vice (no vice marks) and take the tool you have selected to make the hook and pressing down at about 5 degrees and using lots of pressure slide the tool back and forth (drop of oil could help) a coulple of times then increace the angle to about 10 degrees. If you get it right you should be able to feel the hook it should feel like the burr you get when sharpening a knife or somthing. You can put a hook on both coners of the scarper giving twice the time till resharpening. It takes a little practice to get it right so don't give up it realy works good, but if you cut into the glass it will get dull real fast. Gary

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Sanding a Chesapeake hull
John Stys -- 12/26/1998, 9:52 pm
Thanks! & Cabinet Scrapers...
John Stys -- 12/28/1998, 8:46 am
Re: Thanks! & Cabinet Scrapers...Picture
Joe Greenley -- 12/28/1998, 2:28 pm
Re: Thanks! & Cabinet Scrapers...Picture
Marc Leroux -- 1/11/1999, 6:52 pm
Re: Thanks! & Cabinet Scrapers...Picture
Ralph Wight -- 1/12/1999, 1:57 pm
Re: Thanks! & Cabinet Scrapers...Picture
Marc Leroux -- 1/12/1999, 2:11 pm
Re: Thanks! & Cabinet Scrapers...Picture
Ralph Wight -- 1/12/1999, 9:09 pm
Re: Thanks! & Cabinet Scrapers...Picture
Mike Spence -- 1/12/1999, 1:58 am
Re: Thanks! & Cabinet Scrapers...Picture
Gary Toffelmire -- 1/11/1999, 7:59 pm
Re: Thanks! & Cabinet Scrapers...
Bob Marr -- 12/28/1998, 10:44 am
Re: Sanding a Chesapeake hull
Lee G. -- 12/27/1998, 10:38 pm
Cabinet Scrape drips, sand all very smooth
Pete Ford -- 12/27/1998, 10:19 pm
Re: Sanding a Chesapeake hull
Tony Lima -- 12/27/1998, 7:03 pm
Re: Sanding a Chesapeake hull
Don Beale -- 12/27/1998, 12:02 pm
Re: Sanding a Chesapeake hull
Guy Wright -- 12/28/1998, 10:29 am
Re: Sanding a Chesapeake hull
Nick Schade -- 12/27/1998, 10:33 am
Re: Sanding a Chesapeake hull
Paul Jacobson -- 12/26/1998, 11:50 pm
Re: Sanding a Chesapeake hull
Rick C. -- 12/27/1998, 11:49 am