Card Scraper Sharpening | Paul Sellers 

Russell you put it so well. I am learning so Much from Paul.

I agree, sandpaper has its uses, but for me, it's not in the wood workshop.

@@BrownianMotionPicture I think it still has a purpose for smoothing finish. As long as you don't sand through the finish, you aren't affecting the grain at all, but you are improving the surface.

You describe that, so well, I do not like that blurry wood effect

I find watching Paul so relaxing 😌

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I do, but only when he wears his space helmet to use the bandsaw lol . When it comes to his skill at woodworking I have no doubts

Phil Spaces lol so true

Never doubted him. He knows exactly what he’s talking about and is an excellent teacher!

Never heard him exhibit that amount of hubris before. Kinda odd.

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I second the request for a curved scraper sharpening lesson. Thanks again!

Interesting, Looks like my 'vintage oyster knife' from eBay too! 🙂

Particularly scrapers with concave edges.

Sandpaper on a dowel , I think he did a video on it years ago , but I’m not sure

@Roderick storey I guess the stones would clean the scraper sides and then the burnisher would put the burr on as with a straight scraper, but I liked the little hack Paul uses of using a kerf to trap the scraper as he worked on it. I was wondering if he had a hack for a curved scraper as I produce an uneven burr as I work the burnisher along the curve.

@@duncanabbot8352 could you not just use the same method, but cut the pieces of wood with the kerf to the same profile as the curved scraper? Maybe use a bandsaw or jigsaw to cut quickly. You could save that wood as a specific jig for this purpose

I would use exactly the same method just make the 2x4 to mutch the shape of the scraper

Yes and no are the answers I've gotten from other channels. Depends, is it a diamond steel? Ridged or glass smooth? A carbide rod off Amazon, or the like, will work for sure. Carbide is harder than cards or sawblades that some make their cards from. Knife steels come in all sorts of metals, so some may work, and some may not. Typical knives, like in a home kitchen, may not be as hard of a metal as most card scrapers, so you wouldn't need as hard of a steel for the sharpening steel to be made from. Nothing wrong with trying it and see if the results are what you'd expect, you can always buy something else if your knife steel doesn't work for you. But hey, if it does, great, you've got one of the better ones. Another tip, run your "steel" horizontally for a few strokes and see if you can detect any "damage" to your rod, if so, it isn't hard enough steel, if not, then it should work.

@@thomasarussellsr I saw, and copied, the use of the back edge of a cast iron vice for rolling a burr. I'm no great carpenter but I've used the trick quite a bit for scraping/levelling lacquer finish repairs on guitars. More often using a fresh razor blade and rolling the edge over.

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