neanderthal mach
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- Joined
- Dec 18, 2008
- Location
- princeton b.c.
Fwiw I'm slowly gathering up information and the tools to at least do some entry level scraping. I did buy a Darpa hand scraper with the 40 & 60 mm carbide blades. Some years ago through a contact at the local sawmill I managed to pick up about a dozen used HSS planner blades of roughly an inch wide X 12" long and just about .125" thick. Compared to the Darpa main blade there obviously shorter and have quite a bit less spring to them. And yes I already know carbide is always going to retain it's edge for far longer between resharpening's. But does anyone have any thoughts about just how useful these might be for custom shaped and sized scraping edges by using the full length of these blades for more restricted areas and smaller dovetails. Or is this just a dumb as hell idea? Since I'm now retired I've got a lot more time than money, so if this could be made to work it would save me a few bucks.