Sharpening cabinet scrapers

[Eric Krewson]

This is about the best video I have run across lately about sharpening cabinet scrapers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KqPFQHqWJg

[osage outlaw]

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[Hawkdancer]

Very interesting and informative!  Now to get a burnisher!, and figure out how to keep the gooseneck card sharp.  Been using diamond needle files.
Hawkdancer

[lebhuntfish]

Thats exactly the way I was tought.  Except his work hardening.  I don't see any real pros or cons to that step.  Although when squaring up the edge I start with 200 Dimond stone then 300, 400 then 600. It will make your burnished edge smooth as glass and it will reflect in your scraping. Good video though!

Patrick

[jimmi the sammi]

Having trouble with some of the commercial burnishers, I researched the hardest metal and came up with tungsten steel.  I bought a short rod of it on the big auction site, added a small dowel handle on each end of the rod and now have the best burnishing tool yet.  It has finish sharpened many scrapers, most made out of commercial saw mill band saw material, and not a scratch on the burnishing tool to date.

Great video.  Dean Torges used and taught the same method.

[lebhuntfish]

That's good to know.

I use a butchers steel for knife sharpening. It's what I had on hand and it worked so I never looked into buying anything else. You have to make sure it's smooth and the butcher steel is cheap. Found mine years ago at a yard sale for a buck.

Patrick

[Parnell]

You post useful things, Eric.  Hadn’t seen that whole process before...good to know.

[DC]

That's good to know.

I use a butchers steel for knife sharpening. It's what I had on hand and it worked so I never looked into buying anything else. You have to make sure it's smooth and the butcher steel is cheap. Found mine years ago at a yard sale for a buck.

Patrick

Do you use the steel just as a burnisher or do you do the whole sharpening process with the steel?

[Mo_coon-catcher]

I sharpen mine just like Patrick. Though that may be because he taught me how to sharpen them. And with how much black locust I work, I have to sharpen frequently. Once tempered, that stuff eats the edge off a blade. Much worse than almost every other wood I’ve messed with. I’ll generally have to resharpen after each bow.

Kyle

[lebhuntfish]

That's good to know.

I use a butchers steel for knife sharpening. It's what I had on hand and it worked so I never looked into buying anything else. You have to make sure it's smooth and the butcher steel is cheap. Found mine years ago at a yard sale for a buck.

Patrick

Do you use the steel just as a burnisher or do you do the whole sharpening process with the steel?

Just as the burnisher bud.

Patrick

[Pat B]

A screw driver with a round shank makes a good burnisher and ie easy to hold and control.

[Eric Krewson]

I had always used a screwdriver shank or the burnisher that came with a Torges tool. On a whim I ordered a made in England, Crown burnishing tool a while back to see if it was better than what I was using. I tried it out today for the first time, it worked very well, and has what appears to be very fine tooth like rings on it to move more metal. It was like a finer version of a butcher's steel. It took very few strokes to raise a nice burr.

[lebhuntfish]

That's good to know Eric.
Kyle has a burnishing tool set, I used it once at mojam. It seamed to work very well. I'll see if I can get a picture of the butcher steel I use. The rod is smooth as glass.

Patrick

[lebhuntfish]

This is what I have, ben using it for years!

Patrick

[Stoner]

Well explained and simple. John