We also received a Veritas Cabinet Scraper. It is
easy to adjust the scraper with this unit.
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This small nut is used to curve the scraper — as her
thumbs were doing when using the hand held scraper.
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This scraper is deceiving. The blade is angled so you
think that it can be pushed in only one direction like a plane. In fact, the
blade is held at an angle, but the scraping edge is a 45o and can scrape
equally well in either direction.
Joslyn liked the way this scraper worked, but she returned to the hand scraper
for the closer control it gave her.
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We learned rather quickly that these pieces of Koa are odd shaped and that
the Workmate's dogs were not going to hold them effectively, so I found a
number of scraps and will hot melt glue one scrap to the bottom of each
sample. When it is time to do the reverse side, I think (hope) that the hot
melt glue will break off easily.
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I decided to finish scraping this one piece.
It's a lot of work, and I focused on the left corner.
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With about 10 minutes of scraping, I have a smooth
section except for a half dozen deeper saw marks. I am sure I would have
been much better off by either running this piece through the thickness
sander or the planer.
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I just had to see the pop out effect of a penetrating oil on this Koa.
Wow!!! However it is going to be used, it will be gorgeous.
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This is the same section but shot without the flash — just the shop's
fluorescent lights. I post it here to show that while the oil really pops
the grain, it also makes every saw mark very visible.
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Joslyn got a head start on two other finishing methods. Here she uses the
belt sander. I have just installed some Norton blue 50 grit belts and this
should smooth the surface over quite fast. We will use this grade and
follow it with 80 and 120. We will get back to this next time.
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And Joslyn starts to setup my very favorite
sander in the shop, the Festool Rotex 150. It is a random orbital sander but
one that the orbit can be changed. She is installing a 36 grit paper for the
first step. By changing grits and degree of aggressiveness, we will be able
to take this sander all the way through high gloss buffing.
We will have both sanders at work next week. And we still have the
Performax 16/32 thickness sander to use.
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