Veritas cabinet scraper sharpening. A cabinet scraper is a piece of flat steel that when sharpened correctly will produce fine shavings. Used in place of a much heavier belt sander it can clean a dirty workbench top remove dried glue and smooth a panel or tricky grain table top efficiently leaving behind a surface free of tear out digs or gouges. A the card scraper and cabinet scraper are equally well known by woodworkers worldwide. And quite honestly nobody has spent more time testing alloys hardnesses thicknesses sharpening methods burnishing angles etc than we have.
Each set includes a cabinet scraper 150 x 60mm and full instructions. A cabinet scraper may be used to smooth hard timber with difficult grain that is subject to tearout or fiddleback. B i think that is more generally not true that the cabinet scraper is not made to leave a finished surface however some woods scrape to a very poor level because of softness grain structure and so on. You should use a fine file.
Veritas scraper and burnisher presented by woodcraft woodcraft. Mortise chisel adapter for mkii narrow blade honing guide adapts the mkii honing guide to allow consistent accurate honing of mortise chisels. File the edge the edge of the card scraper should be filed square to the tools faces all the sources agree on this. Cabinet scraper from veritas tools.
Using the cabinet scraper once the scraper is all sharpened its time to tackle the work piece. The more polished those two surfaces are the more durable and sharp the edge is. This cabinet scraper is a very useful and versatile tool. Sharpening from veritas tools.
Sole is longer and handles have been placed further back and slightly lower to allow pressure to be applied directly in line with cutting edge and to prevent blade from catching when scraper runs off end of workpiece. Includes several improvements over a traditional 80 scraper. So with that principle in mind heres the thinking behind my scraper sharpening technique. Veritas card scraper review.
5 steps for easy woodworking cardcabinet scraper sharpening duration. But a scraper is very slow at removing material. Before i got my veritas burnisher i used a file with a round ish safe edge so that i could use the round side of the file without having any of the files cutting surface touch the scraper.